TheStreet.com reports on the aftermath of Tuesday’s earnings announcement by VA Linux (parent company of NewsForge). “Credit Suisse First Boston cut its rating on VA Linux to hold from
buy Wednesday, a day after the software and services company announced earnings that fell
short of Wall Street’s estimates … Lehman Brothers analyst George Elling also lowered his 2001 earnings-per-share estimate
while reiterating his market-perform rating and keeping the price target at $15.”

eWeek (via its sister site, ZDNet UK) reports that Microsoft’s Jim Allchin was “misunderstood” when he called Open Source software bad for innovation. Allchin was apparently referring instead just to the GNU General Public License. Open Source people everywhere must feel much better now.

An anonymous reader tells us about this story: “It doesn’t matter that Bertelsmann is in the process of crippling the file trading software with several measures including file encryption and stripping the ability to burn CD’s. It doesn’t matter that Bertelsmann plans to charge for the Napster service this summer and has offered to pay licensing fees to the other labels including the independents. This is now an internal, not an external, matter for the music industry. Napster the software as we know it will soon die, but its spirit will grow when that happens.”
http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2001/napsterbri be.html. For more on the proposal, see this IDG News Service story.

carmie writes: “This editorial at Binary Freedom is a much-needed reminder that manners are still important. In the end we’re not just techies, we’re human beings too.”

Seattle P-I.com: “Last night at Seattle club I-Spy, hundreds of techies gathered yet again to drink, eat and swap business cards. Only this time, many of the dot-commers had become dot-gonners.”

“Ericsson is teaming up with Paramount Pictures to feature a range of
rugged mobile phones in the highly anticipated movie version of the
computer video game Tomb Raider, where Angelina Jolie will play
action figure Croft.” From ZDNET.co.uk.

From ZDNET.co.uk: “In a bid to establish itself as an e-business software vendor,
Hewlett-Packard last week rolled a number of its applications into
two software suites, Netaction and OpenView. HP said it will focus on
providing cross-platform automated services that reduce the amount
of human interaction needed in e-business tasks.”

“You have waited frothingly (ed. note: frothingly??) in anticipation. You have endured a perpetual
release date of ‘two more weeks.’ You may have, in a senseless act of
anxiety over this amazing work of art, even whispered the ‘V’-word[1] under
your breath. You have tormented the developers on IRC. You have begun the
chanting. You have burned towns. You have seized ships and blockaded ports.” Read the rest at Ximian’s website.

From KDENews.org: “If you’re using klipper, the enhanced KDE clipboard manager, or if you have noticed Konqueror’s
excellent history support, then you already know a bit of who Carsten Pfeiffer is and what he does for
KDE. He answers the questions this week in Tink’s popular interviews series with the People of KDE.
Enjoy!”

From LinuxGames.com: “gnuboy version 0.9.4 has been released; gnuboy is a free Game Boy Color emulator (shots). Thanks to Daikak for the news.”