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Linux and Business

Free Software Foundation Announces Support of the Affero General Public License, the First Copyleft License for Web Services. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced support for the first public license designed to protect software distributed as Web services: the Affero General Public License (AGPL). They also invite public comment on the new license.

Announcement of the EGOVOS SELinux Distribution during the SELinux Panel at FOSE in Washington, DC. Project EGOVOS is an initiative to form a consortium of university-based Open Source/Free Software development centers around the country to take responsibility for producing a secure GNU/Linux operating system. They will be selling the National Security Agency's Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) to help with the project funding.

Caldera Education Services Introduces Newest Linux Courseware. Caldera International Inc. revealed Caldera OpenLearning Courseware for Linux solutions. Based on the Linux 2.4 kernel, this new courseware prepares students for Linux Professional Institute (LPI) and CompTIA Linux+(TM) certifications.

Questions about Red Hat and ArsDigita answered (redhat.com). Red Hat has published a FAQ about their acquisition of ArsDigita. "ArsDigita has a reputation for delivering flexible and scalable global content management and collaboration solutions, and has strong Open Source roots, which we think will mesh very well with Red Hat's culture."

POS Shipments Down 7% in 2001 According to IHL Consulting Group. A press release from IHL says that shipments of Point of Sale terminals are down by 7% in 2001. Linus POS terminals show up in the statistics with a small market share, that will probably grow in 2002 due to an ever-expanding Linux presence in the embedded space. "At the operating system level, Microsoft dominated the shipments with 69% of the market with Windows NT/2000/XP (46%) and Windows 9x/CE (23%). IBM's 4690 continued its strength, particularly in the Mass Merchants and Supercenter/Warehouse Clubs where it garnered 80% of all shipments. Linux represented 2% of shipments."

Linux Stock Index for March 15 to March 20, 2002.
LSI at closing on March 15, 2002 ... 27.73
LSI at closing on March 20, 2002 ... 25.69

The high for the week was 27.73
The low for the week was 25.69

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