Technocrat.net features some Open Soure projects that don’t have to do with software, including OpenLaw, “where the discussions and materials used to craft
legal arguments (in briefs, letters, etc) are provided along with the final
output of the deliberative process itself.”

From OSOpinion: “With the announcement this week of
Corel and Microsoft completing a $135
million dollar deal, it brings into question
the seriousness of the commitment Corel
has to Linux. The Microsoft deal is for
implementation of Corel products with
Visual Studio 7 (or as MS wants to call it
Visual Studio.net). This is in clear conflict
with the initiative started last year to
market WordPerfect Office on Linux and
issue a Linux Debian package under the
Corel logo. This monster deal entitles
Microsoft to a very large stake in Corel, 24 million non-voting shares
(a whopping 24 percent of the shares), which to some may border
on conspiratorial.”

From LinuxPR: Easy Software Products today
announced the release of ESP Print Pro v4.1.4, a complete printing solution
for UNIX. The product is based on the company’s Common UNIX
Printing System technology and supports Digital UNIX, HP-UX, IRIX,
Linux, and Solaris.

LinuxPlanet follows up on a CNet report this week, saying that Red Hat officer Michael Tiemann claimed his company started the Open Source revolution. From LinuxPlanet: “To some in the community, the quote indicated the worst they’ve ever
suspected of Red Hat, revealing a ‘Microsoftian’ lapse into editing the
historical record. Others of a more charitable disposition decided to wait and
see what Tiemann had to say for himself.

‘I was a little bit disappointed [Shankland] took that tack, because I think
he was focusing on the wrong point,’ said Tiemann.

‘Red Hat, Inc. is the company that really did start the commercial open
source revolution.’ “

Impera Corporation announced it
will close its subsidiary known as LinuxComponents.com and will lay off its
staff of eight people.

All orders placed with the site before Oct. 3 will still be shipped. The press release is at LinuxPR.

From an article at LinuxLookup.com: “I know almost nobody uses floppies anymore but if you happen to be in a situation where you have to this will help you. I’m talking about the mtools which is usually packed with every distribution of Linux.” — Submitted by an Anonymous Reader.

If you want to use Linux as the basis of a real-time application, there are a
great many options you can choose from in order to enhance the real-time
responsiveness of Linux. Given the somewhat bewildering variety of
alternatives, LinuxDevices.com has created the Real-time Linux Quick
Reference Guide, which we hope will assist you in locating Linux-based
solutions that match your system requirements. Read the press release at LinuxPR.

Entera is currently providing a preview of the beta version of TeraEDGE
Linux, the world’s first commercial content delivery server on the Linux OS
platform. Entera built TeraEDGE with special patented technologies that
allow it to intelligently cache proxy streaming media as well as static content.

Read the press release at LinuxPR.

The Slashdot community debates a claim that a Windows 2000 IIS based machine can handle more hits than a Linux 6.2 Apache based machine.

Jabber.com, a subsidiary of Webb Interactive
Services, today announced it has reached a
multi-faceted instant messaging (IM) training and certification agreement with
Kaivo, a leading open source solutions provider. The agreement creates the
first Jabber Instant Message Training Program and Certified Developers
Network. Check out the press release at LinuxPR.