CRN.com reports that IBM will reinforce, at tis upcoming PartnerWorld Feb. 25-28
in Atlanta, its “strategy of leveraging mainframe
technology and Linux across its eServer line.”

“I was less than amused – livid in fact – to learn that ZDNet is all thumbs when it comes to computers and couldn’t find my story on our
LinuxGram site when it’s there in plain sight and has been since it broke. They wrote that I must have retracted it – without checking of
course – too old school. Remind me to tell them our techs don’t even think one can get an “invalid article” message.

Anyway, after the story broke, the Register scooted over to interview Volker, who was busy telling anyone who would listen how I had
misquoted him. The Register in turn quoted Volker – at the top of its story – as telling them, “I’ve laid off 30 of my best friends. That doesn’t
feel good. I was emotionally moved and this lady took advantage.”

So, let me understand this now. Volker admits in print that he let his guard down.” Read more from Maureen at LinuxGram.

minus tells us about Binary Freedom’s version of the story also reported on NewsForge. “This is sad in one way, inevitable in another. Imagine Media, who also publishes MaximumPC and The Official
Sega Dreamcast Magazine, created Maximum Linux to jump on the Linux bandwagon. While being a colorful and
interesting magazine, many people in the Linux community shunned the magazine for not being technical
enough to serve their needs.” ZDNet also has a story about Maximum Linux’s sister publication, Business 2.0, maybe being up for sale.

http://www.openssh.com/. “OpenSSH is a FREE version of the SSH/SecSH protocol suite of network connectivity tools that increasing
numbers of people on the Internet are coming to rely on. Many users of telnet, rlogin, ftp, and other such programs
might not realize that their password is transmitted across the Internet unencrypted, but it is. OpenSSH encrypts
all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other
network-level attacks. Additionally, OpenSSH provides a myriad of secure tunnelling capabilities, as well as a
variety of authentication methods.”

OReillynet.com has an article that looks at outmp, wtmp,
and lastlog. “These three files are read and updated
whenever a user logs in to your FreeBSD system.
However, you can’t read these files directly, so we’ll also
look at the various utilities you can use to garner the
information contained within these files.”

LWN.net has an announcement from Anthony Towns. “I was originally hoping to get woody out by Wednesday, if for no other
reason than for the beautiful double entendres it’d inspire. But for one
reason and another (and another and another and another), it wasn’t to
be. We are, though, more or less to freeze now, I think.”

InfoWorld reports on the deal, which it says is driven by competition from the Gnome and KDE desktop projects. Plumtree will bundle Microsoft’s .NET enterprise server software applications with its corporate portal.

From a press release at LWN.net: In a gesture of friendship and
reconciliation, e-smith, inc. wishes to reassure Microsoft Corp. that it
has no plans to violate the Redmond giant’s intellectual property
rights.

“There’s really no need for Bill Gates and his people to fear the loss
of their intellectual property,” e-smith CEO Joseph Morrison said. “The
truth is, we don’t want their code. Why would we, when we already have
something that’s much better for our customers?”

LWN.net follows up on the trademark issue. “Two opposed viewpoints are represented in these community exchanges. On one
hand, many people consider Tatu’s notes to have been politely worded and are
sympathetic with confusion caused by multiple products containing the word “SSH”.
They feel his request for name changes is reasonable and have already moved
forward to suggesting alternatives (SHH, FRESH, ESH, Secure Telnet, …)

On the other hand, many people don’t consider the name change request reasonable,
regardless of the wording (and the politeness of the wording can be argued if you look
at statements like, ‘OpenSSH is doing a disservice to the whole Internet security
community by lengthing the life cycle of the fundamentally broken SSH1 protocols.’ “

TechWeb has a story about Goldman Sachs overhauling the way it
develops and updates applications in what could become
the largest-ever enterprise project for reusing Java code.