Salon.com has a column about the work ethic of programmers, and how they tend to think of work more as play that something to put up with.

From PR Newswire: Caldera Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CALD)
today announced Caldera Volution, its Linux-agnostic management product,
claimed the Best Network Server Application Award at LinuxWorld, New York.

From Linux Weekly News: ”
This is to announce the first public release of the Linux-NTFS project
hosted on sourceforge. The first release contains the all new and wonderful ntfsfix utility, which
repairs some of the damage that the current Linux NTFS driver does when
writing to an NTFS partition.”

Abisource: Get the skinny on AbiWord developments and interesting posts to the AbiWord mailing list.

Duke of URL takes a look at the latest from SuSE.

From IDG.net: “Civil liberties are under attack in Europe in the form of software legislation and cyber-crime codes,
open source software guru Richard Stallman (ed. note: RMS won’t appreciate being called an open source anything, but we didn’t say it, IDG did…) warned this weekend.

Stallman called on like-minded Europeans to organize themselves to fight the new legislation,
speaking at a two-day conference hosted by the Flemish Free University of Brussels.

“It is going to be necessary to organize yourselves politically to change government policy,” he told a
packed auditorium of students and Linux devotees Saturday.”

Mary Jo Foley at ZDNET asks us if we’re scared:
“A couple of months back, I asked open-source backers if they were afraid of Linux becoming less of a grassroots
initiative, and more one controlled by the big industry powers. After this week’s LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in
New York, which kicked off with keynotes from IBM and Intel, I’d like to ask again.”

From a WSJ.com article at ZDNET: “A group of respected security researchers has found vulnerabilities in one of the most popular
data-networking technologies that could expose corporate computer networks to eavesdropping and
unauthorized access.

The group, which includes a computer-science professor at the University of California at Berkeley, a recent graduate
and a current computer-science student, discovered the weaknesses in the so-called Wired Equivalent Privacy
algorithm, or WEP. The security measure is employed in the wildly popular 802.11b wireless networking technologies
that allow people to connect to networks using simple radio antennas in their laptop or desktop PCs.”

From PRNewswire: “LynuxWorks, Inc., a provider of
open source and true real-time embedded solutions for the post-PC era, today
announced that FairCom Corporation’s c-tree Plus(R) File Handler V6.10,
embedded database technology, and the FairCom(R) database Server V6.10.34 will
be supported on the LynxOS(R) Real Time Operating System (RTOS) and the
BlueCat(TM) Linux operating system from LynuxWorks.”

Microsoft Corp. on Monday said it will be unveiling new versions of its
core Windows and Office products later this year and will rename them to reflect a
wider range of Web services.

The products will be called Windows XP and Office XP, with the XP standing for experience, the company said in a
statement, reports ZDNET.