PC World reports on a new Microsoft Outlook worm. “Antivirus companies have long cautioned users
against opening unexpected e-mail attachments or
attachments sent by strangers, but thanks to a new
e-mail worm spreading this week, antivirus
companies can add themselves to the list of
not-to-be-trusted e-mailers.” TheStandard’s headline on the story is fun, “Virus alert … pysch!”

A column at ZDNet examines whether Apple’s Darwin project contributes to the Open Source community in light of a recent Open Source Initiative board vote to recognize the Apple Public Source License as an Open Source license.

ZDNet has profiles of three Open Source programmers: Kevin Burton of OpenPrivacy; Trish Lynch of the Listar project; and Rob Savoye, a consultant. (Lynch also works for OSDN, which NewsForge is a part of.)

Mark Allen writes, In the same spirit that free software and the Linux Documentation Project was begun, Mark Allen announces the launching of the Computer Technology Documentation Project (CTDP). This project applies to all computer technologies.
The primary goal of this project is to promote and provide free exchange of technical information and documentation for beginners and experts alike. This project is based on the concept that the sharing of ideas and documentation along with working together will enhance the productivity of both individuals and organizations.

A secondary goal of this project is to provide documentation for free to those who cannot normally afford it. Although this organization provides a mechanism for authors to sell information on the internet if they choose to, this organization is not for profit and does not attempt to promote commercial agendas.

Project documentation provides a great deal of depth about various subjects but is as brief and to the point as possible to allow users to learn quickly. The CTDP web site at http://ctdp.tripod.com/ is easy to navigate and use for learning. The technical sections are well organized and categorized in logical fashion so they are easy to find. Each section normally contains documentation along with web links to other useful web sites that provide documentation or other information relevant to that section.

Information provided on this web site was taken from engineering and software notes started four years ago. It has been converted into HTML and is now a library of information about various useful subjects of a current size between five and six megabytes. This site currently contains several Windows NT documents, several Linux documents and several networking documents. It also contains guides about XML, HTML, CGI, SSI, PHP, hardware and much more.

Those who have technical information or documentation that may be useful are encouraged to join this project and submit information in any format.

The response is posted at Bruce Perens’ site and is signed by nine other community leaders, including Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman and Eric Raymond. “We note a new triumph for Open Source and Free Software: we have become so serious a competitor to Microsoft that their executives publicly
announce their fear. However, the only threat that we present to Microsoft is the end of monopoly practices. Microsoft is welcome to participate
as an equal partner, a role held today by entities ranging from individuals to transnational corporations like IBM and HP. Equality, however, isn’t
what Microsoft is looking for. Thus, they have announced Shared Source, a system that could be summarized as Look but don’t touch – and we
control everything.” The ending is nice: “Free Software is a great way to build a common foundation of software that encourages innovation and fair competition. Microsoft, it’s time for
you to join us.”

It’s at Seul.org. Among the items: “We’ve come across two more organizations working toward putting Linux in their national schools: the Linux for Schools Project
(LFSP) in the UK and Linux-SIS in Thailand.”

Anonymous Reader tells us of a followup story at eWeek detailing Linux outperforming Windows in a database performance test.

A LinuxPlanet columnist dicusses the issues he’s faced with when Free Software’s Richard Stallman emails him and asks him to identify Linux as “GNU/Linux.”

The National Post has a recap. The first sentence is funny: “Two weeks ago, Microsoft came out swinging, and it wasn’t because the gentlemen engineers had switched to boxer shorts. The
world’s largest software company has decided its chief rival needs a black eye.”

eWeek has a story about Apple getting ready to ship an new version of Mac OS X Server, which is similar to the desktop version of the Unix-based operating system.