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Sterling claims this in his article. It would seem to add some extra cache to his Lessig quotes but it doesn't seem to be true, according to Lessig's cv.

Perhaps this is what confused Sterling. Lessig was asked by Judge Jackson to submit a brief in the Microsoft case and apparently it was quite influential.

There are a few articles about Szulick's keynote:
C|Net, Wide Open News and InfoWorld.

I wonder who he has in mind for this "Open Source Education Corporation?"

Did anybody else notice the incredibly poor grammar in the "Wide Open News" article on this topic? Consistant misuse of "its" for "it's" and other solicisms were prevelent. </rant>

Security through obscurity is usually discussed in terms of hiding encryption algorithms and security protocols, which is a totally separate issue. Read this article by Simson Garfinkel on the subject, for instance.

So to me the article seemed like a giant non sequitur.

Tim

Open Source Advocate Has Yet To Rebut Craig Mundie

Jeff Parns considers himself a model for free software advocacy: helping out at installfests, answering questions on the Central Kansas Free Unix User's Group mailing list, working in his spare time on a user-friendly graphical interface to cron. Why, then, has he yet to write a long-winded essay rebutting Microsoft exec Craig Mundie's recent remarks about open source?

Our crack interviewing team cornerned Parns in his home, where he was conspicuously not combing through the text of Mundie's remarks, just as he had not been in attendance at NYU's Stern School of Business on May 3 to hear Mundie speak. What justified this weird behavior?

"I really think there are enough rebuttals already, " said Parns. "I mean, have you even read all those things? "

Eric S. Raymond, whose two preemptive rebuttals sparked the craze, was pessimistic about the chances for a Parns rebuttal in the future. "Obviously, we can't force him to write a rebuttal to Mundie's wrong-headed remarks about open source," said Raymond. "However, it's possible that my new paper, 'How I Rebutted Craig Mundie's Wrong-Headed Remarks About Open Source In Copious Detail--And How You Can Too' will give him some ideas. In fact, there's sort of a little form rebuttal in Appendix C which he can sign his name to and get it linked from Linux Today."

"As a full-time programmer, my day is pretty busy," said Brian Behlendorf of the Apache Software Foundation, whose anti-Mundie remarks were picked up by Infoworld. "Yet even I managed to stop by Mundie's speech and make a few remarks to the press. I don't think this Parns is even trying. I mean, even Steve Ballmer published a 3000-word Mundie rebuttal. Sic transit gloria Mundie, I guess."

Even Parns' neighbors have begun to notice this gap in the open source ranks. "The way he helped me with my Red Hat install, I was sure he was some sort of hot-shot free software advocate," said Millie Leman, a local dominatrix and mother of two. "But I haven't heard one word from him about this Mundie thing. It makes a person wonder."

"Look, it's spring, my son's about to graduate from junior high, I'm trying to get KCron to 1.0," said Parns, shooing this reporter out his front door. "Just leave me alone."

Will Parns rebut? Already, rebuttals with his name on them have begun showing up, though he denies authorship. Watch for the rebuttal signed with Parns' Gnu Privacy Guard key, and keep reading Segfault.org for complete coverage of every Mundie rebuttal ever written.

Tomorrow: An in-depth look at the rebuttal that Mark Billings of London saved to ~mark/mundie.txt, but never showed to anybody.

(This 'story' was first shown at Segfault.org here, and was written by Leonard Richardson)

I thought it would be Stallman to respond first [...] But I'm glad Linus beat him to the punch. [...] Linus' writings are always so relaxed, eloquent, and poingent, even when he's basically calling someone an idiot.

Actually, Alan Cox responded before either of them. I think he does a better job of refuting Mundie in general; Linus focuses on a specific part of what Mundie said and is [IMHO] more inflammatory.

Shame the PHBs won't've heard of Alan Cox cos I think he often has things to say which are worth listening to.

Definitely not meant as a dig, and, perhaps the past 6 years are starting to bear fruit. Hacking's fun, but, my primary reason for choosing Open Source is because I just wanted to write songs. So sad, that tangent has lasted this long, but, perhaps the tides are changing, and, we'll begin to see choice in applications in the near term, as well.

C'mon.... Wouldn't you love to see Cakewalk ported to *n*x? I sure, as hell would.

Excellent and timely rebuttal from Alan. You should read it. Sure, I'm biased. But, my MPU401 is NOT! a gameport joystick controller. It wasn't on Win3.1, and, it still isn't. It controls drum machines and MIDI synthesizers. If Microsoft hadn't fscked that up, I'd probably still be using their crap.

Linux rocks!!! www.dedserius.com

Looks good. At this stage caution does make sense, guess we'll just have to wait.

What happened to libsafe? There was an article on it on RedHat's site, how it was going in to the next version.

Also, any plans for including analog for going through httpd logs? Very usefull.

An AC just pointed out something which makes this more interesting. Since the AC will get moderated into oblivion (for good reason, given the needless fucking profanity), I'll repeat his/her point: RedHat and Cygnus are now the same company. Wasabi is distinguishing between oranges and oranges.

As noted on redhat's own news site, Microsoft has demonstrated pre-alpha versions of windows on ia64. The "Stunning news from MS on this front is long overdue." comment is somewhat off-base. Microsoft isn't as far behind as some would like to think. Rest not on your laurels, and keep up the good work.

• the article on Wide Open News says the Evolution mail client will be able to display Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint attachments;
• KOffice is one of the most promoted advantages of the new KDE 2.0 (and current 1.12), and Gnome has for a long time followed in the footsteps of KDE (not intended as an insult);
• There is no comparable GTK-based office productivity suite.

C'mon folks, it's not a new kind of bagel spread. It's gotta be a software product built on GTK that fills a gaping hole in Linux users' desktop needs. What else could it be?

If you want to read more about this, there's a story running concurrently on Wide Open News and sendmail.net that went live at 4:15 this morning. The gist of the story (from the sendmail.net front door): "The new GNOME binaries Helix Code rolled out today are the red carpet that its first application product, an HTML-capable email client called Evolution, will step onto in a few weeks. If users like what they see, it could be Helix Code that puts Linux on the consumer desktop. Paul Boutin spoke with Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman about it." Quotable quote (from Nat): "We plan to wipe Microsoft Outlook off the desktop."

If you want to read more about this, there's a story running concurrently on Wide Open News and sendmail.net that went live at 4:15 this morning. The gist of the story (from the sendmail.net front door): "The new GNOME binaries Helix Code rolled out today are the red carpet that its first application product, an HTML-capable email client called Evolution, will step onto in a few weeks. If users like what they see, it could be Helix Code that puts Linux on the consumer desktop. Paul Boutin spoke with Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman about it." Quotable quote (from Nat): "We plan to wipe Microsoft Outlook off the desktop."

We now have 2 800 lb Linux gorillas that offer very similar services. RedHat and VA future business looks to revolve mainly around support, and they now both offer a Linux news/portal for the community (RedHat just announced WideOpen News). The main differences are that VA sells top-notch machines while RedHat offers the most popular(?) distribution. Will the ANDN/LNUX deal put pressure on RedHat to further differentiate themselves from the other 800 lb Linux gorilla by snapping up another company (those CORL rumors are popping up again)? I don't think they'll be sitting idle while another major player takes the lead. Interesting note, no mention of the ANDN/LNUX deal on WideOpen News.

We now have 2 800 lb Linux gorillas that offer very similar services. RedHat and VA future business looks to revolve mainly around support, and they now both offer a Linux news/portal for the community (RedHat just announced WideOpen News). The main differences are that VA sells top-notch machines while RedHat offers the most popular(?) distribution. Will the ANDN/LNUX deal put pressure on RedHat to further differentiate themselves from the other 800 lb Linux gorilla by snapping up another company (those CORL rumors are popping up again)? I don't think they'll be sitting idle while another major player takes the lead. Interesting note, no mention of the ANDN/LNUX deal on WideOpen News.

That's what they say here: that we will be able to Operate on Linux by Christmas!

This quote from redhat.com:

Opera Beta by Christmas?

Opera Software promises a Linux version of its popular browser will appear in beta this December.