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The Double Edge of Copyright Extensions
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/11/1921232

    porkface writes "[0]The Morning News is running a simple, but eloquent
    [1]editorial that plainly shows how Hollywood has routinely benefitted
    from the expiration of copyright, despite their adamant pressure on
    Capitol Hill to extend copyright almost indefinitely."
Links
    0. http://www.themorningnews.org/
    1. http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/editorial/copyrights_and_wrongs.shtml

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Record Labels Looking for a Cut of Tour Revenues
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/11/1911253

    [0]Anonymous Coward writes "As many a Slashdotter has pointed out,
    musicians make their money not from selling records but from going on
    tour. Now [1]record labels are trying to get a piece of the action.
    'Now the music labels, hungry for revenue from any source, are mulling
    over whether to make a grab for a piece of the tour biz. One company
    already has: In October EMI Recorded Music signed a deal with Brit
    singer Robbie Williams that gives the label a cut of the pop star's
    merchandise, publishing, touring revenue and sponsorship.'"
Links
    0. http://home.earthlink.net/~kspandle
    1. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/business/Entertainment/forbes_concertcash_030711.html

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OSI Announces Open Source Awards
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/11/1855254

    JohnGrahamCumming writes "There's a [0]story running on [1]ZDNet about
    how [2]OSI is going to be giving Open Source Awards with cash prizes of
    up to $10,000. The idea is to create the "Nobel Prizes" of Open Source.
    Announcement was made yesterday as [3]OSCON with some big names backing
    the awards (e.g. Sun, OSAF and (interestingly) a major venture capital
    firm USVP)."
Links
    0. http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/filters/specialreport/0,14622,6024946,00.html    1. http://www.zdnet.com/
    2. http://www.opensource.org/
    3. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2003/

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Morphix 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128988/

    Morphix is a modular LiveCD distribution. It is partly derived from
    KNOPPIX, and the rest comes directly from Debian.

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Linux Advisory Watch - July 11th 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/11/1038254

    - by Benjamin D. Thomas - This week, advisories were released for xpdf,
    ml85p, openldap, imp, php, semi, x-face-el, liece, mozart, skk, unzip,
    xbl, phpsysinfo, and teapop. The distributors include Conectiva,
    Debian, Mandrake, and TurboLinux. Again, there were no particularly
    serious vulnerabilities this week. However, it is imperative that you
    make an effort to keep your servers up-to-date.

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Newsforge Newsvac
Open-Source Groupware Aims at Exchange
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/11/1611238

    Anonymous Reader writes "In the spirit of the OpenOffice assault on
    Microsoft Office, a group of independent developers has begun an
    open-source groupware project intended to provide an alternative to
    Microsoft's Exchange Server."

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OpenOffice gets groupware boost
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/11/1333248

     The Open Office Group has announced the formation of the
    OpenGroupware.org project. The new software is said to be the final
    piece of the 'OpenStack' roadmap to develop open source versions of all
    the key components of modern office applications.

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Local accounting package goes open source
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/11/1318258

    Claiming to be the first local software publisher to take such a step,
    Pink Software has released a version of its TurboCASH accounting
    package for free download on the Internet.Pink Software says the move
    makes it the world's leading open source accounting program, with at
    least 15 000 users.TurboCASH.7 can be downloaded from the Internet or
    installed from 15 000 CDs to be given away with the latest issue of
    .Net software magazine.