CNet has the story. “Everyone wants to go into this ‘Let’s not sell software. Let’s license
it,’ but that’s horrible,” Torvalds said. “It is the most stupid thing
because nobody wants it.”

There’s a new issue of Apache Week out. Among the items: “Two Apache Software Foundation projects have been chosen as finalists in the 2001 JavaWorld Editors’ Choice Awards. Tomcat has
been nominated for the ‘Most Innovative Java Product’, and Xalan-Java has been selected for the ‘Best Java-XML Technology’.
Winners will be announced in June this year. Back in 1999, the JServ servlet engine won JavaWorld Readers’ Choice Awards ‘Best
Free Product’. ”

The Register has an interview with Monte Davidoff, who helped Bill Gates and Paul Allen create the BASIC interpreter 26 years ago. Davidoff now runs Red Hat on his home computer. “I’m really excited about Linux,” he says. “Having used Unix all these years and put
out professional Unix products, they’ve done a really good job.”

From tech.mit.edu: “Technologists are to blame for passively allowing freedom on the Internet to fade, Stanford Law
Professor Lawrence Lessig told a crowd of technologists in 34-101 yesterday.

And now the only way to keep that freedom from disappearing entirely, he explained, is for technologists
to speak up and teach the lawyers (and everyone else) why the Internet was created the way it was.”

LinuxGram has a brief saying that Linux Canada Inc. plans to release a new Quasar accounting application on Linux. It’s priced at $99 and is expected to be available in June. It will also be offered on Windows.

Wired.com has a feature on a professor in a poor region of Argentina helping to develop an easy-to-run Linux distribution. “Now he wants to spread the open-source crusade and close the country to the Windows OS.”

From CNet: “Online music database Gracenote, which once labeled itself a ‘grassroots Internet darling,’
got a lesson Friday in the slash-and-burn culture of the Internet after announcing it would
sue a customer intent on moving to an open-source competitor of its song database.

After the Thursday announcement, open-source advocates — from Linux evangelists to
technophile site Slashdot.org — inundated the defendant of the suit, CD-burning software maker
Roxio, with letters of support and criticized Gracenote openly.”

LinuxGram has a story saying Red Hat has increased its service offerings with “three new bundles to manage the total lifecycle of open source infrastructure running on its products.” Hmmm, not sure what that means, but the bundles are targeted at small to mid-sized businesses, and combine technical support, training and the recently
introduced Red Hat Network Software Manager, “which provides a customized connection so each system
can get real-time bug notices, security alerts and updates from Red Hat.”

ZDNet reviews Progeny Linux, saying it’s a “valuable new addition to the roster of Linux distributions suited for enterprise users.”

LinuxGram reports that TheKompany.com is looking for people to help “craft sets of shapes for Kivio flowcharting kit,” its Linux-based challenger to Microsoft’s Visio.