F*ckedCompany regulars are discussing this item: “Double your profit by cutting your office in half! : Rumor has it Sendmail.com is laying off people this very moment. Apparently about 60 jobs will be axed by the end of the week.”

From Slashdot: “One of the pilot-link main developers states on Advogato and on his site that Sony
is violating GPL by distributing binary only version of POSE that has been customized for their
Clie (their new Palm compatible device).”

From a ZDNet story: “File-swapping and instant messaging company Aimster has opened a new front in the
online music wars, asking for court protection as legal troubles threaten to send it down a
path similar to Napster’s.”

From InternetWire: Next week at the
Networld+Interop event in Las Vegas, Bluesocket
Inc, a developer of wireless local area network
(WLAN) equipment for managing and connecting
wireless devices to corporate networks and the Internet, will announce its Bluesocket Secure
Wireless Bridge, model WB-1000.

The Linux-based management server will curtail the practice of “skyjacking,” or the ability for
unauthorized users to freely gain wireless access to the corporate wireless network from nearby.

An anonymous reader points us to a ZDNet story about today’s Microsoft speech. Microsoft is sharing source code, but still distancing itself from Open Source.

TheStandard.com adds more context to today’s Microsoft executive speech on Open Source software. “Redmond lets its customers look at source code but doesn’t
let them tinker with it. In fact, the company says free code is
potentially criminal.”

Patrick Mullen writes, “The Duke of URL has posted a review of the Gigabyte GA-7ZXR motherboard, a KT133A motherboard with on-board Promise IDE RAID. The review covers all of its features, layout, benchmarks (Q3A, Kernel
Compilation, XHDBench), overclocking, the BIOS, and much more.”

CNet has more information on Venezuelan bank Banco Mercantil buying into “IBM’s strategy of using Linux on a mainframe
computer.

The bank, one of Venezuela’s largest, will move tasks currently running on 30 Windows NT
servers onto a mainframe running Linux, IBM said. Customers checking account information over
the Internet also will be using the mainframe’s services.”

ZDNet has a story on Egenera targeting the high-end server market with an “ultradense” Linux design that can handle up to 96 Intel Xeon processors in one six-foot rack.

Mikael Pawlo writes, “The much appreciated French edition of LinuxToday is terminated. According to editor-in-chief Cedric Godart, the French edition is discontinued immediately, due to short-term financial reasons. If I read Godart’s French correctly, Godart directs some criticism regarding the shutdown towards owner Internet.com. The web site might continue its operations as a non-profit project, but its future is very dark. Read the last message from Cedric Godart.”Here’s the translation from http://w3.systranlinks.com/systran/cgi: “As announced, the French-speaking edition of LinuxToday will cease its
activities this Tuesday 1e May. We thank our many readers and
faithful, the sites which agreed to relay our infos, and all those
which contributed to it. Many other sites, Community or commercial,
will not fail to bring your daily amount of information to you on
Linux and the Open Source. We continue to deplore this decision taken
for economic reasons in the very short term by internet.com.

“Currently, we do not know if the site completely will disappear this
1e May or if you can continue to use this site as bases data. We ask
you to excuse this artistic blur, without which we would have readily
done.”

OK, there’s something lost in the translation, but you get the general idea.