Linux Weekly News is carrying an email sent to debian-devel@lists.debian.org (the Debian developers’ mailing list) which indicates Linux may be taxable as a donation in Poland.

Linux PR reports that Caldera is offereing free Linux training for anyone who wants it at this week’s Comdex 2000.

ZDNet reports on the existence of a secret chatroom within the CIA under investigation. The channel was in existence for at least five years before the agency noticed it.

Scientific American online has a feature on a team of elite “hackers” matching wits with undefeated autonomous defenders at a nuclear weapons lab.

From PR Newswire: Inprise Corporation has announced the
immediate availability of Borland JBuilder 4 Foundation. JBuilder 4
Foundation is a pure Java development environment supporting the latest
Java 2 platform standards and cross-platform development. The product is
available for free download at Borland’s Web site,
http://www.borland.com/jbuilder/foundation/.

CNet reports on the battle between Transmeta and Intel, as both companies plan to introduce a slew of low-powered chips for
notebooks next year.

In the first quarter, Transmeta says, it will release version 4.2 of its
“code-morphing software that significantly reduces processor power consumption.”

EE Times reports that “Aldec Inc., a longtime provider of
FPGA design tools, will make its first foray into the ASIC
market this week with Riviera, a Linux-based
mixed-language simulator. Riviera simulates VHDL, Verilog
and EDIF and comes with an HDL editor and source-level
debugger.”

A press release is at LWN.net: REDSonic, Inc., a provider of real-time and embedded Linux solutions, today
announced the release of RED-Probe, a real-time system event viewer and
monitoring tool for REDICE-Linux.

RED-Probe is a graphical, real-time, monitoring and profiling tool and an
integral component of the REDICE-Linux development system.

ZD Net reports: Linux is still fighting its way into e-marketplaces, both as a platform and as a commodity. But at Comdex this week, software vendor Exterprise and marketing startup PartnerAxis will show off a Linux-based e-marketplace for Linux vendors and users.

Reuters reports that the world’s first cybercrime treaty is being hastily redrafted after Internet lobby groups assailed it as
a threat to human rights that could have “a chilling effect on the free flow of information and ideas.” The Council of Europe plans to issue a
new draft late this week to clarify passages that led to what it sees as “serious misunderstandings.” Slashdot readers discuss the new draft.