InfoWorld reports that Napster is curiously absent from the O’Reilly Peer to Peer Conference, which started Wednesday. Tim O’Reilly says Napster people felt “they couldn’t say a word” while their court problems remained.

FreeDevelopers.net has published a copy of its Declaration of Software Freedom. In part: “That whenever any Form of Commercial Organisation becomes
destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to
alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Forms of
Commercial Organisation, laying their foundation on such
principles and organizing their powers in such ways, as to
them shall seem most likely to secure their personal
autonomy and continued happiness.”

FreeBSDzine.org has a how-to article on using VMware to to run Windows 98 under FreeBSD 4.2.

tjhanson writes: “This one’s rich:

‘Microsoft Corp.’s Windows operating-system chief, Jim Allchin, says that freely distributed software code such as rival Linux could stifle innovation and that legislators need to understand the threat.’ ”

The story’s from Bloomberg at CNet.

LinuxDevices.com has the announcement: “PC Engines, a
developer of custom embedded PC hardware and firmware, today
published the source code for its tinyBIOS embedded PC BIOS
core. tinyBIOS was designed from the ground up for embedded
PC applications such as network appliances. Features not
needed or desired for embedded use were left out. For
example, tinyBIOS does not have a setup screen.”

From LinuxPR: The Center for Engineering Research and Transfer
(CIRTES, http://www.cirtes.fr) of the ESSTIN Engineering School at Saint-Dié
des Vosges, France, has chosen the Open CASCADE surface module to
develop the surface editing functions of its OrthoStrato software. Dedicated to
orthopedics specialists, this software allows designing and modifying
made-to-measure corrective devices, such as back braces and full body
supports, in 3D. The orthopedic technician can easily modify the onscreen model
of the orthopedic device thanks to the surface editing functions.

John Gowin writes: “The basic premise of the game is easy: get mission, go to far off place, kill people, collect a paycheck. The last part of that statement is a bit silly — considering the fact that no matter how much money you make, it doesn’t effect the outcome of the game.
Raven’s modified Quake II engine (appropriately monickered G.H.O.U.L, which I think means Guts, Heads and Other stuff Unceremoniously Laying about) has provided 26 different ‘gore zones’ for positional damage good enough to write home about. The results are overwhelmingly effective. To understate: The blood-n-guts factor is quite high in this title.” Read the article at Linux Orbit.

It’s at LWN.net. What more can we say? Go look.

From PR Newswire: Trend Micro Inc. (Nasdaq: TMIC)(Tokyo TSE:4704), a leading provider of
antivirus and Internet content security software, today announced the
appointment of Mahendra Negi as the Chief Financial Officer of Trend Micro.
Mr. Negi will remain the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer
of Trend Micro’s wholly-owned subsidiary ipTrend, Inc., a Linux-based Internet appliance development company.

BSD Today reportsthat BSD-related sessions will be included at Apple’s upcoming World Wide Developer
Conference. Sessions will include: utilizing BSD within Mac OS X; Mac OS X kernel extensions; and Darwin, the Open Source foundation of Mac OS X.