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Why isn't Linus Torvalds involved with the drafting of the third version of the GNU General Public License (GPL)? Torvalds has frequently criticized the process and the drafts of the GPLv3, and recently voted against the license in an informal poll of kernel developers, so it seems obvious to question why he chose to sit out the process. Torvalds gives his reasons as a dislike of committees, an inability to contribute in his preferred way, and philosophical differences with the Free Software Foundation (FSF), which he suggests is trying to absorb other licenses under the GPL.

[What would be wrong with absorbing other licenses under the GPL? That could essentially reduce the number of licenses one has to worry about, couldn't it? - dcparris]

This is to announce the availablity of a new Fedora mailing list for SELinux-specific discussion.

JasperSoft Inc is the first open source vendor to marry its business intelligence software to the CRM software as a service model.

embWiSe Technologies Pvt. Ltd, a supplier of products and engineering services solutions around SDIO, USB and 802.11 WLAN technologies, will be demonstrating its Linux CE-ATA software stack/driver at the CE-ATA booth at this week's (Sept. 26-28) Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, United States.

Novell and Intel have joined forces to produce a Xen-enabled Linux that will work especially well on dual-core Xen processors. (Linux-Watch)

Marking what could have been a summer-long hiatus in its "Get the Facts" campaign, Microsoft is re-igniting the flames on the argument over whether enterprises spend less to manage Windows systems than Linux systems.

[And in other news, LXer editor Don Parris commissioned a study that proves he is the best looking guy on the planet. I'm sure everyone will believe that study too. The fact that women flock to other guys can be explained by their relaxed standards. Yeah, that's the ticket! - dcparris]

LXer Feature: 15-Jul-2006

Novell Linux Road Show attendees seemed pretty impressed by the introductions to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Desktop.

Open source software advocate and developer W. Jason Gilmore attended a recent Microsoft confab for Web developers. In this column, he discusses Redmond's Linux-friendlier IIS 7. In another report, he offers views on Microsoft's Codeplex, a code repository that mimics but doesn't live up to Sourceforge. -- Editor (Open Source News)

Just how many enterprise problems can you really solve with Open Source Java tools? Open Source Live will bring enterprise devs hands-on exposure to some of the hott4est Open Source Java-based tools, including Ajax, JSF, Hibernate, Spring and even EJB3. The forum will be a weekend-long Practicum for Java open source tools October 6-8 in the heart of Silicon Valley – Santa Clara, Calif.

Free software’s true believer gives his thoughts on whether it is okay to use proprietary software to make Linux popular.

[All hands on deck! Prepare for "free" vs "open source" and anti-DRM bloodbath. Or maybe just another lively debate here on LXer. - dcparris]

Debian has issued updates for gnutls11 and gnutls13. These fix a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

The GNOME Project recently released GNOME 21.6. While the latest release doesn't offer any breakthrough features, it does include a wealth of minor tweaks and improvements.

Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits: Red Hat (RHAT) shares are higher today, ahead of tomorrow’s expected fiscal second quarter earnings report tomorrow.

[Hmmm... Should be of interest to any Red Hat stockholders in our crowd. - dcparris]

So, an Aussie, a Canadian and a German guy walk into a bar … and migrate the joint's computer system to Linux.

LIVINGSTON, N.J., Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- adaptiveblue today announced that it has launched the blueorganizer smart browsing technology at DEMOfall '06, the premier venue for new products and companies.

'It looks like you're trying to have a conversation with a computer. Can I help?' In the early 1970s, no science show was complete without predictions of HAL-like intelligent autonomous computers by the turn of the century.

[Interesting tidbit in this one for EMACS fans - dcparris]

Day Two of Akademy 2006 and the speakers conference was brought to a close with the Akademy Awards Ceremony. And the Winners are: Boudewijn Rempt, Alexander Neundorf, and Laurent Montel. Read on for more details.

For several years a group of academic researchers has been quietly working on a new kind of search engine -- one that recognizes the semantic meaning of a query instead of only taking input as a keyword to be literally matched. The technology is licensed under the GPL, and a desktop version is imminent.

CenterStage, a GNU GPL open source media center application for the Mac platform, has launched a recruitment drive to help push their independent project along.

[Since this is a FOSS project... - dcparris]

US researchers have secured a $750,000 three-year grant to study how open source software such as the Apache web server is built.