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<a href="http://www.eff.org/news/breaking/archives/2004_03.php#001256">The EFF has reported</a> on a recent vote in the European Parliament, adopting the Directive on Intellectual Property Enforcement. This gives rights holders new tools with which to attack intellectual property infringers. The proposals make little distinction between unintentional, non-commercial infringement by consumers, as opposed to the for-profit quasi-industrial infringement practised by professional pirates.
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As <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/36496.html">reported by The Register</a> The European Commission has found that Microsoft has <a href="http://europa.eu.int/rapid/start/cgi/guesten.ksh?p_action.gettxt=gt&doc=IP/04/382|0|RAPID&lg=EN;">abused its position as a monopoly</a> in the market. The findings centered on Microsoft's use of its dominant position in the OS sector to acquire market share in associated products (e.g. media player).
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The <a href="http://europa.eu.int/rapid/start/cgi/guesten.ksh?p_action.gettxt=gt&doc=IP/04/382|0|RAPID&lg=EN;">remedies imposed include</a> requiring the disclosure of interface documentation to allow non-Microsoft work group servers to inter-operate with Windows systems. This information must be updated as products change, and Microsoft will be entitled to remuneration "To the extent that any of this interface information might be protected by intellectual property in the European Economic Area". Microsoft will also have to offer to PC manufacturers a version of Windows without Windows Media Player. A fine was also imposed.
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Though some, such as Sun Microsystems, <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/36498.html">have strongly welcomed the ruling</a>, <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/03/23/0035227">others are more sceptical about its potential to change matters</a>. Indeed, the <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/36520.html">licensing of APIs may offer a welcome new revenue stream</a> to the Redmond company.
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<a href="http://www.thenetworkadministrator.com/EuropeanParliament.htm">Concerns about European patents</a>
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<a href="http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT8693703925.html">LinuxDevices.com's Embedded Linux Market Survey</a>
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<a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/03/05/1757235">How Not To</a> sell Linux Products
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<a href="http://lxer.com/">LXer</a> (pronounced Elexer) is a newish (January) Linux news site. Well worth a look.
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<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/68/36611.html">Simputer uses Linux</a>
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<a href="http://www.eetimes.com/sys/news/showArticle.jhtml%3Bjsessionid=3XREN4PNRRNFUQSNDBCSKHY?articleID=18401004">Linux in the living room</a>
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<a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1553990,00.asp">8 rules for open-source business strategy</a>
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<a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6443">Video production with Linux</a>
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<a href="http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/03/25/1650210">creating PDF files with ps2pdf</a>
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<a href="http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/03/25/ps2_linux.html">A look at the state of Linux on PS2</a>
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<a href="http://www.illuminata.com/cgi-local/pub.cgi?docid=linux26">Linux 2.6</a> at illuminata
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<a href="http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5170061.html">Macromedia to offer Linux support</a> on a trial basis
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<a href="http://www.itmanagersjournal.com/management/04/02/27/2210254.shtml">Hiring Open Source Developers</a>
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Linux Warcry asks <a href="http://linux.warcry.com/scripts/news/view_news.phtml?site=26&id=15941">what are the alternatives to XFree86</a> while The Age has a useful report on the <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/04/1078295485888.html">licence issues between Apache, XFree86 and FSF</a>
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<a href="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/wi-enable.html?ca=dgr-lnxw02Linux4Wireless">Wireless Linux</a>
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<a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1316895686&fp=16&fpid=0">CEOs say Open Source keeps IT spending down</a> and <a href="http://www.linuxinsider.com/perl/story/33013.html">and saves money</a>
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<a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FC02Ad02.html">Comic-book publisher turned IT-company</a> aims to bring Linux and new hardware platforms to China at large
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<a href="http://www.newsforge.com/technology/04/02/25/1548203.shtml">Ian Murdock on the future shape of Linux distributions</a>
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<a href="http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/02/26/linux_distros.html">Linux distributions around the world</a>
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<a href="http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php?story=20040226231747944">Hyper-threading and Linux</a>
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<a href="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040301025634926">SCO goes quiet in Germany</a> following an out of court settlement with Univention. Effectively, they seem to be prevented from publicly expressing most of the statements behind their case.
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<a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0301/p11s01-almp.html">Copyright law stifling art</a> with DJ Danger Mouse's <a href="http://www.google.ie/search?q=grey+album&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&meta=">Grey Album</a>
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<a href="http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-net26.html?ca=dgr-lnxw02KCNetwork">Networking improvements in the 2.6 Kernel</a>
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<a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/wlg/4546">Introduction to the Gumstix</a>, a tiny Linux computer
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<a href="http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/03/04/screen_capture_movies.html">Creating UNIX screen-capture movies</a>
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<a href="http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT2184776431.html">Migrating to 2.6</a>
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<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3537165.stm">Cold war between open and closed source camps</a>
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<a href="http://www.2cpu.com/articles/98_1.html">Comparison of Linux 2.6.4 vs 2.4.25</a> while <a class="nonexistent" href="/~mconry/cgi-bin/wiki/moin.cgi/NewsForge">NewsForge</a> asks <a href="http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/03/19/1912222.shtml?tid=132&tid=2&tid=82&tid=94">is the 2.6 kernel ready for general distribution?</a>
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The <a href="http://www.gnome.org/">GNOME Project</a> had the misfortune to experience an intrusion on the server hosting www.gnome.org and some related gnome.org websites. However, it is unlikely that sources were tampered with, and by all accounts <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/36507.html">this was a minor intrusion</a>.
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The Apache Software Foundation, and The Apache HTTP Server Project have announced the release of version 2.0.49 of the Apache HTTP Server. As well as fixing three security vulnerabilities, this new release also includes numerous enhancements and new features.
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The Free image manipulation and graphics tool <a href="http://www.gimp.org/">the Gimp</a> has reached version 2.0. This is a major release, and marks the advent of official support for the software on MS Windows and Mac OS X, as well as the traditional Unix-based operating systems. As well as the <a href="http://brix.gimp.org/files/presspack/pressrelease.pdf">official press release</a> you may be interested to read the descriptions of the <a href="http://brix.gimp.org/files/presspack/about.pdf">new features included in this release</a>. The software can be downloaded now from <a href="http://www.gimp.org/downloads/">various mirror sites</a>.
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Debian <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/76622/">votes to keep non-free</a>.
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The Debian package <a href="http://popcon.debian.org/">Popularity Contest</a> aims to help order the applications that will be included on the estimated 13 binary CDs sarge will ship on when released. Participation is simply a matter of installing the <a href="http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&version=all&exact=1&keywords=popularity-contest">popularity contest package</a>.
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The O'Reilly Linux devcenter has published an account by Danny O'Brien of <a href="http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/03/15/gentoo.html">a talk given by Daniel Robbins, Gentoo's chief architect</a>. Also of interest is <a href="http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/8009/index.html">the review of Gentoo</a> at LXer.
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<a href="http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/investors/newsletter/sn040304?wslang=en">Mandrake has relisted on the stock market</a> after filing a plan for the repayment over the next nine years of its outstanding debts.
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Mandrake has also released a new revision of their operating system <a href="http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/10.0/100PR.php3">Mandrake 10.0 Community</a>, which features the new 2.6 kernel.
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<a href="http://www.linuxworld.com/story/44103.htm?DE=1">Bruce Perens on UserLinux</a>
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<a href="http://www.gfi.com">GFI</a> has announced that it is developing a Linux version of its GFI <a class="nonexistent" href="/~mconry/cgi-bin/wiki/moin.cgi/MailSecurity">MailSecurity</a> product, and that it will be adding support for Linux-oriented features in all its products. Previously, GFI <a class="nonexistent" href="/~mconry/cgi-bin/wiki/moin.cgi/MailSecurity">MailSecurity</a> was available for Microsoft Windows.
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O'Reilly has launched a new Linux reference book. The new "<a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxpg/">Linux Pocket Guide</a>" by Daniel Barrett aims to be a useful reference for new and experienced Linux users who need a quick and handy means to look up Linux commands.
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