Tim O'Reilly on "The Strange Case of the Disappearing Open Source Vendors"
by Tara McGoldrick WalshLinux Newsletter for 07/01/2002
Dear Reader,
In preparation for this July's Open Source Convention, Tim O'Reilly
writes about the current state of open source. He explains why open
source is good for businesses even if it isn't always good for software
vendors, and he says customer lock-in is the real enemy of business,
not the GPL. Tim also asks if you have information (either positive
or negative) about the use of open source in government, or about
the pressures placed on its advocates. If so, please post the
information in the talkback at the end of his article, or email Tim directly. Your responses may be discussed at the "Open Source in
Government" panel at OSCON.
The Strange Case of the Disappearing Open Source Vendors
Also this week, John Viega, Matt Messier, and Pravir Chandra, the
authors of "Network Security with OpenSSL," offer advice on deploying
SSL-enabled applications with OpenSSL. From recovering recorded
sessions to insecure cryptography, you'll learn about seven common
SSL pitfalls you'll want to avoid.
Seven Common SSL Pitfalls
We also have Michael Lucas's "Big Scary Daemon" column. This week
Michael discusses disklabels--those files at the beginning of a
disk that indicate where each BSD-style partition begins and how
many disk sectors it occupies. Learn why it's important to
understand disklabels as well as how to repartition disks on BSD.
(And if you've missed any of Michael's previously published columns,
you can reach them from this article.)
Understanding FreeBSD Disklabels
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Finally, one of OSCON 2002's featured speakers, Aahz, wants you to
get loopy with Perl and Python. Playing off his upcoming tutorial
in which he compares Perl and Python, in this article Aahz compares
Python's loop constructs to Perl's.
Getting Loopy with Python and Perl
Thanks for reading,
Tara A. McGoldrick
tara@oreilly.com
Web Editor
O'Reilly Network
Featured Articles
The Strange Case of the Disappearing Open Source Vendors
Tim O'Reilly explains why open source is good for businesses even
if it isn't always good for software vendors. Customer lock-in is
the real enemy of business, not the GPL.
Seven Common SSL Pitfalls
Here are seven common pitfalls to avoid when deploying SSL-enabled
applications with OpenSSL, by the authors of Network Security with
OpenSSL.
Understanding FreeBSD Disklabels
A disklabel is a file at the beginning of a disk that indicates
where each BSD-style partition begins and how many disk sectors it
occupies.
Getting Loopy with Python and Perl
How do Python's loop constructs stack up to Perl's? Aahz, one of
the featured speakers at this July's Open Source Convention compares
the two.
OpenSSH Remote Challenge Vulnerability
Noel Davis look at remotely-exploitable vulnerabilities in OpenSSH and Apache; a denial-of-service attack against BIND 9; buffer overflows in libc, tcpdump, and some RADIUS daemons; and problems in dnstools, XChat, UnixWare and Open UNIX's ppptalk, and IRIX's pmpost.
Rotor Comes to Linux
Shaun Bangay has ported the shared source .NET CLI project, Rotor,
to Linux. It's not just for FreeBSD anymore.
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