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Novell's Jack Messman might be one of the last honest businessmen, unafraid to change his mind and his company's direction, but never afraid to tell the truth when he discovers it. On the other hand, he simply might not be able to remember what his company's marketing message was just a few years ago. I'm betting on the latter.

JBoss offers insight to raising open-source businesses.

Wine -- the open source implementation of the Windows API on X and Unix -- is a tool that you may never need. Its development seems to have been driven primarily by games and office suites available on the Windows platform, but not on Linux. Since I'm happy with the games available natively to Linux, and I don't have much need for office suites, that means I haven't been watching Wine mature over the years. But now I've got an itch that I can only scratch with a shareware app for Windows, so I thought it was time I installed Wine to see if it could bring some relief.

News from the release building effort for 2005.0, infrastructure moves and changes, a heads-up for shifting sys-apps in the tree and a call for business user testimonials dominate this week's Gentoo Weekly Newsletter. The featured developer section is back from several months of hiatus, this week with the maintainer of Gentoo's package database site, and the Gentoo International section carries two important reminders for shows in the UK and Germany next weekend, and a report from another expo in Germany that closed yesterday. Starting this week, the GWN has moved the security announcements and the Bugzilla statistics to the end of the newsletter, and besides the Gentoo in the press clippings we also have a tip on using emerge in clever ways you may not be familiar with.

Suddenly, new companies based on free and open source software (FOSS) are being noticed again. Reading about companies like Alacos and Black Duck Software, I realize that it has been six years since FOSS began to have a market impact. Now, with the dot-com crash and a recession in the technology sector behind us, companies are still trying to answer the question, "How can we make money from FOSS?" I can't pretend to give a complete answer, but here are a few observations that might improve the odds.

What: Xilinx Embedded Processing Solutions at ESC San Francisco

A member of the Apache Foundation open-source community organization says the Sun-led JCP actually stifles competition in some ways.

Greg KH announced the first maintenance release of the 2.6.11 kernel, 2.6.11.1. Quickly acting on the recent lengthy discussion regarding kernel release numbering, Greg and Chris Wright have begun to maintain this branch. With each 2.6.x release, they will maintain 2.6.x.y releases available from your nearest kernel.org mirror.

21 new stories have been posted to the web by Linux Magazine.

The latest issue of Linux Gazette is ready for viewing and download at http://linuxgazette.net/

Open source licensing gives you the freedom to deploy software for whatever purpose you want, even to tinker with its internals or to build complex systems with components from different developers. That's great for pilot projects and research, but when it comes to enterprisewide deployment, those same licenses can become a hindrance.

Russ Nelson, the newly elected president of the Open Source Initiative, announced that he was resigning the office, reportedly in part because of accusations of racism.

Issue 2 of the Free Software Magazine contains two articles by KDE promo member Tom Chance. In Guerrilla Marketing he discusses how KDE's promotion efforts compare to those of other Free Software projects while his interview with Bernhard Reiter, conducted at aKademy last year, discusses marketing in government and software freedom on the desktop.

A startup in Santa Clara, Calif. is shipping a Linux-based mesh router aimed at VoIP and video. The Mesh Dynamics Module uses multiple radios -- along with custom real-time Linux extensions -- to create a duplexing backhaul network said to improve bandwidth more than 64 times over conventional mesh technology.

The Open Source Initiative, a group seeking to become more influential in matters concerning the cooperative programming philosophy, has seen its second change of leadership in less than a month.

A public beta of OpenOffice.org 2.0 will be released today. From the much improved interface through to the inclusion of OpenOffice.org Base the open source office suite replacement not only challenges the proprietary office suites in affordability but is also upping the stakes on the standards compliance and functionality front as well.

How do 250 scientists spend their coffee break at a scientific conference? They use KDE! There was a scientific conference, the Tübinger Perception Conference 2005 (TWK) at the end of February. Many scientists from all over the world joined to take part in the symposia and the poster sessions. Because many scientists are addicted to their e-mail, the organizers installed an Internet Corner with 3 KDE Terminals.

BURLINGAME, CALIF. - Eclipse will have to deal with its own success and the challenges that success presents, said Lee Nackman, a CTO and vice president at IBM Rational Software who was involved in founding the open source platform.

Linux gadget lovers may find a new mobile phone/handheld computer from Remote Office Access Devices (ROAD) intriguing.

By offering free SSL certificates to open source projects, domain registrar GoDaddy.com is asking, "Will the real open source please stand up?"