My condolences to her family, I assume she saw the scamming going on at Canopy and did something about it.  Hearing the news from such a distasteful source is a shame.

New patch to version 1.0.2 has been released for Firefox to fix a buffer overflow problem with GIFs.

I thought there were some good comments about how this demonstrates the strength of OSS.

Also note near the end of the story that a recent report indicates IE share of the browser market has slipped below 90% (ok, it is 89.9%, but still...). w00t!

http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=3373&Page=1&pagePos=2

Yes, our old Samizdattin' pal Ken Brown is back with some mind-boggling comments about OSS.

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Fanzilli retired from CSFB in 2002 after 18 years of service. He remains very active in the technology industry, serving on the board of public software company Interwoven and on the boards of two private companies, CommVault and nLayers. In addition, Fanzilli was a PeopleSoft board member. He also serves as a venture advisor to several venture capital firms, including Allegis Capital, FOCUS Ventures and Partech International.

"Frank brings invaluable enterprise customer experience to our board and he was also a pioneering champion for Linux at CSFB, overseeing the deployment of one of the first production Linux systems on Wall Street," said Stuart Cohen, CEO of OSDL. "His understanding of IT organizations as well as his strategic technology and business relationships will be enormously helpful to the board as OSDL works to advance Linux in the enterprise."

At CSFB, Fanzilli presided over information technology at the global investment bank during the firm's most significant expansion, defining the bank's technology architecture. He led an IT organization of more than 4,000 people with an annual budget approaching $2 billion at its peak. In addition to his role as Global CIO, Fanzilli also served as CIO of Europe for CSFB, head of Global Applications Development, and was a member of the bank's IT Executive Board in Zurich. Prior to CSFB, Fanzilli began his career at IBM where he managed systems engineering and software development for Fortune 50 accounts.

"As a former CIO, Frank brings important end user expertise and key insights to the OSDL Board," said Ross Mauri, OSDL Chairman and general manager of e-business on demand at IBM. "We look forward to his contribution to OSDL's mission as a board member and advisor."

"We saw the promise of Linux early at CSFB, so I am excited to be able to make a personal contribution to help drive this disruptive technology by participating on OSDL's board of directors," Fanzilli said. "I welcome the opportunity to work with customers, vendors and the development community on initiatives to strengthen Linux."

Fanzilli holds a B.S. degree in Management from Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut, and an M.B.A. in Finance from New York University, New York, NY, where he was the Marcus Nadler Scholar. About Open Source Development Labs (OSDL)

OSDL - home to Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux - is dedicated to accelerating the growth and adoption of Linux. Founded in 2000 by CA, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Intel and NEC, OSDL is a non-profit organization at the center of Linux supported by a global consortium of more than 60 of the world's largest Linux customers and IT industry leaders. OSDL sponsors industry-wide initiatives around Linux in telecommunications, in the enterprise data center and on corporate desktops. The Lab also provides Linux expertise and computing and test facilities in the United States and Japan available to developers around the world. Visit OSDL on the Web at http://www.osdl.org/ .

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http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1110150624459&call_pageid=970599119419
Say no to Big Brother plan for Internet
MICHAEL GEIST
Notwithstanding the Internet's remarkable potential, there are dark clouds on the horizon. There are some who see a very different Internet. Theirs is an Internet with ubiquitous surveillance featuring real-time capabilities to monitor online activities. It is an Internet that views third party applications such as Vonage's Voice-over-IP service as parasitic. It is an Internet in which virtually all content should come at a price, even when that content has been made freely available. It is an Internet that would seek to cut off subscriber access based on mere allegations of wrongdoing, without due process or oversight from a judge or jury.

In fact, if you are familiar with the SCOXE board, ledite was the most recent person to say this. Can't find that post at the moment, because Yahouevre is down.

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As SCO seeks to rekindle its Unix business by sending "Legend" to beta, Linux Business Week's Maureen O'Gara lets her imagination run riot. What would happen if Sun were to discover that SCO is actually better on x86 machines than Solaris 10...?

SCO says OpenServer 6, the next major release of SCO's hereditary Unix operating system, the one codenamed "Legend" and different from the UnixWare OS that SCO got from AT&T via Novell, has gone into formal beta and will begin shipping in May.

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This is crying out for a parody.

SGLI.ob to buy SCOXE

As SCO seeks to rekindle its lawsuit business by sending "Fishing" to pre-alpha, Linux Business Week's Maureen O'Gara lets her hallucinations run riot. What would happen if Signature Leisure were to discover that SCO is actually a better stock scam...?

Innovation and its Discontents claims that the American patent system is now in danger of going off the rails altogether. Authors Adam Jaffe, an economics professor at Brandeis University, and Josh Lerner, professor of investment banking at Harvard, make a number of practical suggestions for putting the system right.

The Pirate Bay is on of the biggest distribution sites for BitTorrent files. The site distributes torrents files who together with a BitTorrent can be used to download everything spanning from Linux distributions to movies and music owned by Copyright holders who prohibit distribution. The new law also prohibits distribution of software capable of circumventing copyright protection, effectively making the sales of Linux distributions illegal.

PLEASE READ AND RETAIN FOR YOUR RECORDS.

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) took down the Loki Torrent Web site last month, but the open source technology known as BitTorrent -- used by Loki Torrent for free, unlicensed file sharing -- is not a target of the movie industry or other content owners, largely because of its legitimate uses, but also, according to legal experts, because it is open source software.

"It's open source, so who do you go after?" asked Phil Albert, IP attorney and partner with the San Francisco law firm Townsend and Townsend. "You could go after its author and you could somehow force him to give up and say he'll never touch it -- so what? It's open source. Anybody can develop on it."

Hope you can get to the link.  MSFT has agreed to add an "N" to the end of the names of their XP versions to signify it does "n"ot include WMP.

Introducing the glooper computer

26 March 2005

Duncan Graham-Rowe
Magazine issue 2492

How do you turn a blob of jelly into a thinking, feeling liquid brain? New Scientist investigates the development of chemical-based processors

MOST of us find a shot of caffeine or a brisk walk does the trick. But when Andrew Adamatzky feels his brain needs a little extra stimulation, he gets a robot to dabble its metal fingers in it.

Adamatzky is a computer scientist at the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK, and his prototype brain is a dish of chemicals sitting on a lab bench. Its "thoughts" are waves of ions that form spontaneously and diffuse through the mix. And occasionally, when things get too sluggish, the brain instructs a robotic hand to dip its fingers into the dish and wiggle them about, literally stirring the creative juices.

SCO OpenServer 6 Prepares for Release
Monday March 14, 9:00 am ET
- Major Upgrade Brings Powerful UNIX Features to SCO OpenServer as Product Enters Beta Testing

LINDON, Utah, March 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The SCO Group, Inc. ("SCO") (Nasdaq: SCOXE - News), the owner of the UNIX® operating system and a leading provider of UNIX-based solutions, today announced that SCO OpenServer(TM) 6, the next major release of SCO's flagship UNIX operating system, has entered formal beta testing and is expected to begin shipping in May. The product, developed under the code-name Legend, has been part of a multi-year, multi-million dollar development effort. The product has been designed to provide customers with significant performance and security enhancements, access to thousands of applications, and integrates many popular Open Source technologies.

A design goal in creating SCO OpenServer 6 included using the proven UNIX System V Release 5 (SVR5) technology that is also found in SCO UnixWare®. SCO has successfully integrated SVR5 into SCO OpenServer 6, which will provide customers with a significant increase in performance and a greater choice of applications that run on both UnixWare and SCO OpenServer. Software vendors will benefit by developing and certifying applications once that run on both UNIX operating systems, saving significant time and development resources.

In addition to supporting thousands of UNIX applications, as well as thousands of Java applications by including the latest version of Java, customers will also find thousands of additional applications available through many of the latest Open Source technologies that are integrated into SCO OpenServer 6. This includes the latest versions of the MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, Apache Web server, Mozilla browser, Tomcat Java servlet container, Samba file and print services and many others. In addition, SCO OpenServer customers can use the familiar OpenServer desktop or the included KDE desktop environment.

Compatibility with prior versions of SCO OpenServer is critical to customers and SCO continues to provide that with SCO OpenServer 6, preserving the investment of customers' know-how and training in their SCO OpenServer environment. SCO OpenServer 6 runs existing applications, completely unmodified. SCO also continues many other SCO OpenServer-style capabilities from security levels, look-and-feel, and other tools.

"With this latest release of SCO OpenServer, we will be able to give our customers a significant increase in system performance, scalability, and new capabilities, while maintaining the proven reliability that they have become so accustomed to with SCO operating systems," said Bob Ungaretti, President of Raven Technologies, a SCO Premier Reseller Partner. "We anticipate this release generating a lot of interest among our SCO OpenServer customers."

Increased Performance and Capabilities

In addition to significantly increased performance, SCO OpenServer 6 customers will gain greater capabilities in the number of supported processors, increased memory and large file size support. These include:

     Symmetrical Multi-Processing -- SCO OpenServer 6 now supports up to
     16 processors.

Increased Memory Support -- General applications running on SCO OpenServer 6 can utilize up to 16 GB of general purpose memory, while additional memory can be dedicated for special applications, allowing databases to access up to 64 GB of memory.

Increased File Size Support -- SCO OpenServer 6 supports file sizes larger than 2 GB, for both disk-based and network files. Disk based file systems can grow as large as 1 TB, and larger network files are supported through Network File System (NFS) v3.

Multi-Threaded Application Support -- SCO OpenServer 6 supports multi-threaded applications with native UNIX System V kernel support, which increases the overall response and performance of applications. The UNIX kernel is fully pre-emptive, and supports multi-threading for C, C++, and Java applications through the POSIX interface.

Security

SCO OpenServer 6 builds upon its heritage as one of the most secure operating systems available with the addition of several security enhancements including SSH for remotely logging onto systems using encryption, IPFilter for regulating IP traffic and IPsec for virtual private networking. File system access control lists and encrypted file system capabilities are also included.

Web Services

SCO is integrating Web Services technologies from the company's SCOx Web Services Substrate into SCO OpenServer 6 to allow customers to bring data from legacy "green screen" applications into a Web-based environment. The SCOx Web Services Substrate saves customers from having to re-write applications or port their data to new applications, saving customers valuable time and money.

"SCO OpenServer is known for reliably running small-to-medium businesses and branch offices of companies throughout the world," said Darl McBride, President and CEO, The SCO Group. "This includes hundreds of well-known companies with thousands of locations all over the world in the areas of large retail, pharmacy, and fast food companies. With SCO OpenServer 6, we are providing our customers with the latest and most advanced technologies to reliably run their businesses. For decades, SCO UNIX has provided performance, reliability and security running on the Intel and AMD platform and SCO OpenServer 6 continues that tradition."

Beta Testing, Availability & Pricing

SCO OpenServer 6 is now in official beta testing and is actively being beta tested by many of SCO's leading customers. To participate in the SCO OpenServer 6 beta test, interested parties can sign up at http://www.sco.com/products/beta/app/signup.html. In order to participate, interested parties must be an existing member or sign up to become a member of SCO's partner program. A partner program application can be found at http://www.sco.com/partners/agreement.html. The company expects to begin shipping SCO OpenServer 6 by early summer and will announce specific pricing details at that time.

About SCO

The SCO Group (Nasdaq: SCOXE - News) helps millions of customers in more than 82 countries to grow their businesses everyday. Headquartered in Lindon, Utah, SCO has a worldwide network of more than 11,000 resellers and 4,000 developers. SCO Global Services provides reliable localized support and services to partners and customers. For more information on SCO products and services, visit http://www.sco.com.

ravenII writes "GPL Violations.org are looking after the GPL. Warning letters were personally handed over to companies at their CeBIT booths by Mr. Harald Welte, free software developer and founder of the gpl-violations.org project. It seems big boys like Motorola, Acer, AOpen, Micronet, Buffalo and Trendware seem to violate GPL. Please visit the site for more information on GPL enforcements and violators."

has link to site
http://gpl-violations.org/news/20050314-cebit-letter-action.html