PRNewswire reports, in the first Center Stage event, Red Hat Center founder Bob Young will discuss the expansion of the Open Source movement beyond technology.

Continuing a commitment to promote the Linux operating system, IBM said Tuesday it will spend $200 million (US$) to build seven new Linux
development centers in Asia, from E-Commerce Times.

Linux Today article that rebutts comments made from Bill Gates earlier in the week in which he stated, “Linux can’t compete.”

According to this article from the Toronto Star, statistics gathered by security research group Attrition show Linux-based Web sites are four times more likely to suffer online vandalism than they were just three months ago.

Australian IT writes, “Growing three times faster than the broader internet,
WAP technology is finally reaching a critical mass.”

“OpenAvenue, the leading provider of
Collaborative Development Portals, announced today that they have joined a
group of industry leading sponsors to promote and host the CollabDev Seminars
examining the issues and advantages for open standards and the collaborative
development process.” Full press release at prnewswire.com.

“One of the world’s leading multimedia manufacturers, Creative Technology, is
boycotting the world’s largest computer show, CeBIT,” says ZDNet.co.uk; CeBIT organizers claim they aen’t banning MP3s.

ZDnet.co.uk pontificates about this situation:
“Nearly 900,000 workplace PCs in the US used Napster in July, more than
double the number in May. Can employer crackdowns be far behind?”

The Australian government has had the legal power to shut down Web sites it doesn’t like for six months now, but AustralianIT says they’ve only actually closed 16 so far in reation to 160 complaints they’ve received.

The Register is amused but not surprised by this phenomenon. One paragraph in the story says, “Yeah, right. Sony has such a knack of pitching demand predictions just below the
level consumer interest finally reaches, that it’s pretty clear the company is holding
back on supply to boost interest in the product.”