LinuxNews commentary on what is going to be the ultimate and supreme challenge to the continued existence and penetration of Open-Source into the world of enterprise computing.

Three days after the surprise announcement that Microsoft will acquire a 25 percent stake in erstwhile rival and current Linux vendor Corel, company outsiders are still speculating on what exactly the decision means for the open source community, reports Upside Today.

Red Hat Chief Technical Officer Michael Tiemann drew up his own points for rebuttal to a CNET article quoting him as giving credit to Red Hat for starting the “Open Source revolution”, Linux Today offers an
excerpt of the letter defending his position he sent to media outlets.

Today Impera Corporation announced it will close it’s subsidiary known as LinuxComponents.com and will lay off its staff of 8 people, Linux PR reports, all orders placed with the site before October 3rd will still be shipped.

Linux PR: Easy Software Products today
announced the 1.1.4 release of the Common UNIX Printing System
(“CUPS”), an IPP/1.1-based printing system for UNIX.

Linux Weekly News offers The LinuxDevices.com Embedded Linux Newsletter for October 5, 2000.

Today at Linux World, SAP AG announced it will make the SAP DB database management system available as open-source software under GNU General Public License, reports NewsAlert.

From a Boston Globe editorial: “Jack Valenti Believes in the unlimited right of movie studios to
control the distribution of their work. But professor Lawrence
Lessig says, ‘I believe in the right to hack,’ even if that
results in breaking codes that safeguard new movies on DVD discs.
Somewhere between those positions is a middle ground that fosters
the creation of new intellectual property, while protecting the
public’s fair use of older works.”

Posted at Gnome.org: The first-ever elections for the GNOME Foundation’s Board of
Directors will be held November 1-8. The GNOME Foundation will
coordinate GNOME releases, speak on behalf of the GNOME project and
more. See the GNOME Foundation web site for the foundation’s charter, an
FAQ, a list of registered voters, elections rules and more. Anyone who has
contributed in any way to GNOME is welcome to vote, but first you must
register. Register to vote by October 30 by sending email to
membership@gnome.org with your name, email address, and a short list of
how you contributed to GNOME.

From a LinuxDevices column: ”

In my opinion it’s all MontaVista’s fault! The problem began when they announced a ‘fully
preemptable hard real-time Linux kernel.’

Then came the debate about whether their kernel was or was not fully preemptable, and
whether or not it was truly hard real-time. But that’s not where the debate ends. Nobody
thought of questioning another aspect of MontaVista’s release — namely: had they spelled
‘preemptable’ correctly?”