Mr. Torvalds Goes To Brussels, Dec 02, 2004

Last week, a group of Open Source pioneers joined a running battle over the future of software patents in the European Union. Over the next several weeks, Europe may adopt the same legal framework that has allowed a bunch of con artists to wreak havoc on the U.S. software industry.

A security expert this week reported two potentially significant bugs in Linux software used to share file and print services with Windows-based systems.