“Early this morning, a number of not-quite-open source corporations, ranging from Microsoft to
IBM, annouced that they would begin to publish many part of their applications under the UYF
(Up Yours FSF) license. The upshot of the license is that you are allowed to do anything you want
with the code it is designed for, except compile it.”
The story’s from the humor site Segfault.

AbriaSoft, a Silicon Valley
provider of database solutions for the Internet,
announced its release of the Abria
MySQL Admin Training CD-ROM, its first in a series of MySQL education products.
AbriaSoft is the first company to commercially distribute MySQL into a boxed
package for online database solutions. The press release is at Internet Wire.

From a column at Securityfocus.com: “Every season yields a bumper crop of computer security stories: break-ins, new vulnerabilities, new
products. But this season has also given us a crop of stories about computer security philosophy. There has
been a resurgence in opposition to the full disclosure movement: the theory that states that publishing
vulnerabilities is the best way to fix them. In response, defenders of the movement have published their
rebuttals. And even more experts have weighed in with opinions on the DeCSS case, where a New York
judge ruled that distributing an attack tool is illegal.”

Zope.org offers a high-level overview of the next planned Zope feature release.

From a review at Linux World: “IBM has become legendary in the Linux community for its repeated announcements and
reannouncements regarding Linux support. It seems every six months at some Linux show or even
a general PC show, IBM pledges across-the-board Linux support. That is all very odd because
since Big Blue’s first altar conversion a couple of years ago, it has done a great deal for the Linux
community (despite purported resistance from the AIX group), but by constantly reproclaiming its
allegiance, it gives the impression that it never followed through on prior pledges.”

Intel Corporation has
announced that it is placing an Open Runtime Platform into the open source
community as a research platform for advancing e-Business applications. E-Business
applications are typically compiled to an intermediate computer language rather than the
traditional executable used for PC applications. This intermediate language gives these
applications a flexibility that enables different platforms to cooperate in completing an
electronic transaction.
The press release comes from Business Wire.

From Australian site Fairfax IT: “What happens when you put hundreds of geeks, more
than 130 computers, a bottomless supply of iced Cokes, a
100 megabit ethernet LAN, hundreds of copies of the rebel
Linux operating system and caffeine-loaded, penguin
peppermints together in one room? A LUV-In.

About 300 people braved a winter squall to attend the
Linux Users of Victoria’s (LUV) largest-ever Installfest at
Monash University earlier this month.” More from linuxworld.com.au.

VeriSign, a provider of Internet trust services, along with Nuron
LLC, a developer of programmable logic coprocessors, and Penguin Computing, a provider of reliable Linux-based systems for Internet serving, hve
announced an agreement to integrate VeriSign’s Web site digital certificates into
Penguin Computing’s Linux-based servers with Nuron’s adaptive computing
boards. Penguin Computing’s AcB-equipped Web servers will now
provide customers with a one-step, out-of-the-box process to deploy secure
e-commerce Web sites. The press release is at LinuxPR.

Two British programmers, calling
themselves Xor and RandomDan, have created a music-swapping system,
called Metallicster, that has no central server. The BBC has the story.

A Linux World review tackles the question of whether Avocent’s Linux-tested KVM
switches offer relief for the problem of how to manage many computers on
one desktop.