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An estimated 1,000 patents spanning software, hardware and networking are destined to be sold to the highest bidder in San Francisco by a merchant bank this spring. Ocean Tomo is hosting the first in a series of two planned patent auctions this year, in a move the company believes will help - not hurt - innovation in IT.

Given our recent emphasis on open source and its enterprise implications, we thought it was the right time to repost this 2003 article on the theme of open source's appropriateness for the enterprise. --Editor

Mozilla has announced that over 20 million internet users have downloaded the Firefox web browser since the release of version 1.5 on 29 November last year. The company claims to have seen strong demand for the browser, with " hundreds of thousands" of people downloading the new version of Firefox every day since its release.

Use of material fair, says court

Andrew Tridgell was named this week as the winner of the annual Free Software Foundation award for his work as originator and developer of the Microsoft-replacing Samba project as well as his development of rsync.

I am the senior system administrator for a national ISP. We run a cluster of blade servers as our primary mail/Web/DNS/RADIUS farm. I have found several tools that I cannot live without in this environment.

If you're relying on search engines owned by giant companies to shield you from Big Government, step away from that computer. Your faulty grey matter is a far greater danger to you. Email Battles shows you how to take care of yourself so Big Business and Big Government can duke without either of them pretending they care about you.

South African search engine, Jonga, is being indexed again by Google after a 10-day hiatus from Google’s search results.

Learning Regular expressions can be a real chore. But by using this utility, the finer nuances of regular expressions can be picked up easily.

The Royal Bank of Scotland Group is moving its content management systems over to the open source application server Zope.

Some Web users are reporting seeing a reformatted Google results page that has the links to specialized search pages listed in the left-hand column instead of placed horizontally across the top of the search box.

Open Source Pioneer Larry Augustin Joins Fonality's Board of Directors

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After years of official separation, Mozilla is just now shaking off some of the last vestiges of its parental association with Netscape.

Mozilla's Usenet(define) public newsgroups have been moved from netscape.public.mozilla.* to just mozilla.*. The renaming officially ends Mozilla's public Netscape news legacy after more than 8 years of active use.

Novell, through its CoolSolutions community-relations website, is conducting an online public survey to determine which Windows-only applications are most likely to keep Windows users from migrating to Linux. The company also wants to know which Windows-only apps would be most popular on Linux desktops if they were ported to Linux.

More than a few Linux users have become upset because they have trouble making scanners work properly with their systems. Most of the time, however, "the fault doesn't lie with Linux," writes DesktopLinux.com columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols.

Instead, "it's the eternal problem of hardware vendors neither supplying drivers nor the information developers need to write drivers," he continues.

Mathieu Allard, the free software advocate who ran for the New Democrats in the riding of Saint Boniface, Manitoba, finished third in the Canadian national election on January 23. Since he was not elected, he is returning to his job as executive assistant to Christine Melnick, the Minister of Housing and Social Services in the Manitoba provincial government. He plans to look for new ways to promote the use of free software in government.

Will Judge Alito allow the government to snoop on your Web surfing, e-mail, and Internet chatting? MozillaQuest Magazine (mozillaquest.com) reports: "the Constitution expressly forbids the President . . . the authority to spy upon American citizens without first obtaining search warrants . . . That includes our e-mail, our Web surfing, our Internet communications, and so forth. Whether George Bush and his regime are exceeding those powers likely will work their way up to the Supreme Court.

Scalix and Zimbra offer promising e-mail solutions that exploit Ajax to offer rich Web clients.

Perth based e-learning vendor HarvestRoad (ASX:HRD) has signed a software partnership deal with Linux vendor Red Hat. HarvestRoad develops solutions for the education, defence and enterprise marketson the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform.

PCLinuxOS, a three-year-old LiveCD desktop Linux distribution that originated as a fork of Mandrake, now has its own website. PCLinuxOS.com went live earlier this week. "We now have a home of our own, thanks to the support from donations received last month," distro founder "Texstar" wrote.