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Freenet’s Ian Clarke heads to California

Author: JT Smith

The Standard writes: “The man who calls copyright law ‘unenforceable’ is bringing a powerful file-sharing application across the pond.”

Category:

  • Linux

Netscape has serious security hole

Author: JT Smith

From Linuxtoday.com: A serious vulnerability has been found in a version of Netscape Navigator and Netscape Communicator Java interpreter that allows Web-based programs to access virtually any file.

Category:

  • Linux

Napster gone corporate?

Author: JT Smith

From Wideopen.com: Intel will attempt to prove it can get down with the baddest Net players when it announces a plan to ignite development of more peer-to-peer networking for businesses and consumers.

Category:

  • Open Source

Stallman Begs to Differ with Troll Tech’s Allison

Author: JT Smith

Richard Stallman rebuts Warwick Allison in a BeOpen.com letter to the editor.

Category:

  • Linux

NetBSD Security Advisory: Netscape 4.73

Author: JT Smith

The buffer overrun in Netscape’s JPEG parser has been fixed in 4.74; here is the
NetBSD Security Advisory.

Category:

  • Linux

Dr. Dobb’s Python-URL

Author: JT Smith

A new edition of
Dr. Dobb’s Python-URL
is now up, with news and links in the world of Python.

Category:

  • Linux

PKI still mired in pilot mode

Author: JT Smith

from ZDNet’s eWeek. Quote from story: PKI (public-key infrastructure) two years ago held the title of most
promising security technology. But in the battle to become a staple of
IT security, PKI has fallen behind intrusion detection, anti-virus
software and e-mail filtering and is in danger of becoming “forever
pilotware,” said Chris King, an analyst at Greenwich Technology
Partners Inc., in Stamford, Conn.

Category:

  • Linux

Latest Netscape 6 Beta Due This Week

Author: JT Smith

[announcement]Full story at SiliconValley.internet.com. Quote: “There will be at least one more beta before a final version slated for this fall. This is
a critical time for Netscape given that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has overtaken the once-dominant
Netscape browser to gain the lion’s share of the market.”

Category:

  • Linux

MandrakeSoft Appoints Internet Pioneer Henri Poole as CEO.

Author: JT Smith

[press release]San Francisco, CA, August 7, 2000 – MandrakeSoft Inc., the company behind the world’s
fastest-growing Linux operating system, Linux-Mandrake, today announced the appointment of
Internet industry pioneer Henri Poole as its new Chief Executive Officer. Poole also joins the board
of directors of the company.
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