Torvalds Criticizes Security Approaches, Jan 14, 2005

Linux creator Linus Torvalds had a few things to say this week about the way potential security issues are disclosed to fellow open sourcers. And it wasn't all good.

In fiscal year 2003/2004, Mandrakesoft's consolidated sales revenue reached 5.18 million euros and operating revenue reached 6.29 million euros. This represents strong growth of 33% and 58%, respectively, compared to FY 2002/2003

The KDE Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of KDE 3.4 Beta 1, dubbed "Krokodile".

Having made his fortune during the heyday of proprietary software, the 54-year-old Kapor finds himself at the forefront of two foundations devoted to open-source software development.

Three decades ago, Atari was the pioneer in video-game systems. A lot has changed since then--Pong isn't quite the draw it was in 1975--but Atari Inc. hasn't given up on progressive thinking.

Two years after its first attempt fell short, Red Hat is trying again to reach beyond its own employees for help developing its Linux line.

Sun Microsystems reported on Thursday a profit of $19 million, or 1 cent per share, for the last quarter of 2004, but the server and software company's revenues once again declined.

2004 was a portent of things to come for Linux in 2005, both because of what didn't happen (SCO Group's victory) and what did (the rise of open source software), according to Marten Mickos, CEO of Sweden-based MySQL AB.

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