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Four years ago, Bill Gates dispatched a companywide e-mail promising that security and privacy would be Microsoft's top priorities. Gates urged that new design approaches must "dramatically reduce" the number of security-related issues as well as make fixes easier to administer. "Eventually," he added, "our software should be so fundamentally secure that customers never even worry about it."

Microsoft customers haven't stopped worrying.

Open-source software has sparked revolutionary reform of the US patent system in new plans outlined today.

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), IBM and Open Source Development announced a new plan to speed up patent approval, while improving their quality

Welcome to this year's 2nd issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community.

Opinion: Bill Hilf, director of Microsoft's Linux and open-source lab, makes some pathetic claims about Linux. (Linux-Watch.com)

[ED: Just one more instance where a Microsoft "Get The Facts", is overly selective of the facts - what do you expect the truth? Well you can't handle the truth! They are just trying to protect you. - HC]

Tonight on The Linux Link Tech Show, episode 118:
We talk to Jeffrey Wade, HP's worldwide marketing manager for Open Source and Linux organization
Our new in-studio webcam and guest calendar
Jon Watson checks in
Apples new Intel based laptops
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The Globus Consortium (founded by IBM, HP, Sun, Intel, Nortel, Univa and Cisco) today published the latest issue of the “Globus Consortium Journal. (http://www.globusconsortium.org/journal).” The newsletter focuses on open source Grid computing projects - and this month features developer interviews with the leaders of the three most important services in the Globus Toolkit (www.globustoolkit.org).

LXer received a document from a source with the message "I read your article on linuxJournel about countries growing use of Linux. The attached article was posted in Intel's intranet site." It reveals that Intel expects to sell hundreds of millions of Linux-based computers in rural China. If Intel can sell a Linux computer in rural China, why can't they do the same thing in the United States?

Is it such a risk? Look at IBM in the US, they have committed to Linux with facilities, staff, sponsorships of projects. Was the risk so great for IBM? Obviously not. So, Intel, put up!

[Ed: Original published in November and updated in light of new reports. -tadelste]

Panasas ActiveScale Storage Cluster Beats Competition in Throughput and Performance; Out-Of-The-Box Solution Eliminates Costly Deployment to Maximize Return on Investment

Use the gd graphics code library to create and manipulate images quickly.

To provide more options for developers, the Mono open-source development platform will be part of the next version of Linux distribution, Fedora Core.

Recently Lx'er (and Kerneltrap) ran a story on the state of Wireless in Linux by Jeff Garzik which was pretty frank and just a tad depressing. Stephen Hemminger is trying to do something at OSDL.

update : Two patents covering one of Microsoft's main Windows file-storage systems are valid after all, federal patent examiners have decided. It also voiced concern that Microsoft would try to seek royalties from companies that sell and support Linux for using the technology, potentially posing a threat to the free software community. Under the terms of the Free Software Foundation's General Public License, Linux cannot be distributed if it contains patented technology that requires royalty payments.

[Ed: Time to lose FAT! Can we say get "Slimfast" (get slim fast)? Oh, never mind! - dcparris]

An increasing number of federal information technology systems are being migrated from proprietary Unix systems to open-source Linux systems and desktops in order to gain quicker upgrades, platform flexibility, increased security.

Stories about Microsoft's latest study are beginning to crop up here and there. This time, Redmond is trying to convince us that Linux isn't really any better on older hardware.

Through its Science and Technology Directorate, the department has given $1.24 million in funding to Stanford University, Coverity and Symantec to hunt for security bugs in open-source software and to improve Coverity's commercial tool for source code analysis, representatives for the three grant recipients told CNET News.com.

Zope developers have replaced one of their core components in the latest version of the open source application server, bringing potential performance and scalability benefits.

User groups have long been an integral part of the free software and open source world. Goan journalist and LUGger Frederick Noronha shares his secrets on what makes a great community.

Due to a marked increase of computers in Nepal, Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya (MPP) -- the country's principal archive of books and periodicals in Nepali -- has launched a beta version of NepaLinux, a Debian-based Linux distribution localized in Nepali, the language spoken by more than 30 million South Asian people.

At Leapsoft Technologies, we see the future of IT in Nigeria as that of affordable software powering the Nation. Nigeria has long suffered from expensive proprietary software plaguing our government, education and private sectors with each of these bodies writing out huge cheques annually or even more frequently in licensing fees.

Some of these fees could be saved and better spent on improving education in our schools, improving the healthcare system or providing electricity and water to other parts of Nigeria that do not already have these utilities by adopting open source software that is a fraction of the cost of proprietary software.

The company behind the virtual private server (VPS) software Virtuozzo announced yesterday it would release a "bare-bones" open source version called OpenVZ, which it expects to help drive development of the proprietary one.