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Linux Newsletter #10 (fwd)
(edited down from 60k...)
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3.1 Hot News Item #1: Linux Trademark suit settled!
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Linus Torvalds is now officially the owner of the Linux Trademark!
WorkGroup Solutions, and the Linux Mall are proud to have played a pivotal
role in this becoming the case. We were the first company approached to pay
royalties for use of the Linux Trademark. We then retained an attorney
(Gerry Davis) and the rest is history ... which can be found at:
http://www.LinuxMall.com/announce/lxtm.001.html
Gerry Davis did an incredible job for the Linux community, and I hope that
we will all remember this, and send him more work. Did everyone know that
Gerry was the original attorney for Digital Research? Does anyone remember
who they were? Digital Research was once the king of microcomputer operating
systems. My how things change. Thanks Gerry!
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3.2 Hot News Item #2: An Apple a decade keeps Microsoft healthy?
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Microsoft just bought 150 Million dollars worth of Apple Computer's shares.
Apple devotees did not take it well. There was a lot of booing when Steve
Jobs introduced Bill Gates as a special guest at the announcement.
Meanwhile, Red Hat Software's brand new web site proudly proclaims "Welcome
Apple Refugees". This is actually a fairly well written article worth
looking at. http://www.redhat.com/news/news-details.phtml?id=23
In addition, August 4, 1997 issue of Network World on page 14 reports that
Microsoft, when cornered, finally admitted that Internet Explorer 4.0's Java
support is not in fact 100% JDK compliant as they had been saying it was.
The article maintains that Microsoft purposely misleads people into its
products with misrepresentation so that Microsoft can push its own
"standards" to the detriment of "open standards". It would be much better if
Microsoft would just accept open standards as is, and then help to enhance
them. Sooner or later the buying public will become tired of being
railroaded into spending more money to fix the next thing that does not
work.
Speaking of Microsoft, here is an article entitled: IDC says NT not ready
for prime time. IDC (International Data Corp) is one of the major
authorities in the Computer Industry regarding technology trends.
http://www.sun.com/sunworldonline/swol-07-1997/swol-07-eyeoncomp.html#2
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3.3 Hot News Item #3: Web mischief!
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At http://www.news.com/Rumormill/Archives/rum8_4_97.html we found this:
"Speaking of Web mischief, it turns out that Mike O'Connor, the
same dude who registered the television.com domain last year and
refused to part with it, despite amorous advances from CNET execs
and others, has also plucked corp.com and company.com. Microsoft
supposedly used those domains as generic placeholders in recent
documentation for Windows NT and Web server software. But--snicker
snicker!--what MS thought were dummy URLs turn out to be live, and
Mr. O'Connor has used the opportunity to give those who wander
into his domains an anti-Microsoft earful, or redirect them
automatically to trashy Web sites."
Ed: So, check out http://company.com
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3.4 Hot News Item #4: Global Positioning System for Linux!
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From: Remco Treffkorn - remco@rvt.com
A new Beta of mayko xmap is now available
Mayko xmap is a map viewer for Linux which interfaces to your GPS
(Gobal Positioning System) via the gpsd daemon. Source for this
daemon is on sunsite. Since Mayko xmap and the daemon communicate
via sockets, they can run on the same, or different computers. You
can track vehicles remotely, as long as they have Internet
connectivity!
You can use scanned files or the included maps. The program also
supports vector maps. A low detail map of North America is
included.
Visit http://www.mayko.com/xmap/ for more information or to
download your free copy.
Ed: Global positioning in the vehicle AND remotely. Just image how Fed-Ex,
taxi companies or anyone with delivery vehicles will love this!
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3.6 Hot News Item #6: Real time Collaboration!
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Real Time Collaboration across the net, Internet or local.
VisualTek software products for workgroup collaboration represent
the latest innovations in Internet/Intranet technologies.
Rendezvous is a real-time collaboration software that integrates a
full-featured whiteboard and text-based communications over the
Internet/Intranet. It allows you to collaborate with friends and
colleagues anywhere in the world via the Internet/Intranet. While
you chat, you can draw simultaneously on a common canvas, and
exchange files and screen snapshots with participants.
Rendezvous Linux clients and servers are available for evaluation
at
http://rendezvous.visualtek.com/
We include "tar.gz" for any Linux, and ".rpm" for Linux Pro, Red
Hat Linux and Caldera OpenLinux.
Rendezvous is also available as Java applet/application and as
client and server for other platforms.
Ed: Chat with a vengeance... Maybe even get some work done.