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Linux-Announce Digest #852, Volume #4 Sat, 7 Aug 2004 17:13:02 EDT
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[HUMBUG] Next Meeting - 14th August 2004 (Mark Suter)
[FSFE PR][EN] FSF Europe Newsletter (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
glpk 4.6 release information (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
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From: Mark Suter <suter@zwitterion.humbug.org.au>
Subject: [HUMBUG] Next Meeting - 14th August 2004
Date: 7 Aug 2004 02:05:02 GMT
The Home Unix Machine Brisbane Users Group exists to get fellow
Unix users in contact with each other, to introduce people to
Unix and Unix-like operating systems, and to help users in
operating those systems. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Meetings tend to be informal. We socialize, discuss Unix and
computing, solve Unix problems for new and experienced users
alike and, these days, have regular talks.
Date: Saturday, 14th August 2004 (every second Saturday)
Time: From 3pm with the network up 30 minutes after we are
granted entry. The network will be brought down after
midnight to allow time to clean up for a 1am exit.
Venue: Room S201, Hawken Engineering Building (no. 50)
The University of Queensland, St Lucia Campus
Car parking is currently unregulated on Saturdays. The
University is serviced by public transport with frequent
buses during University terms. For more information:
http://www.uq.edu.au/about/index.html?page=1070
http://www.uq.edu.au/maps/index.phtml?menu=1&z=1&id=25
Cost: Membership until our AGM in September is $20, but no one
has to join unless they are going to use club services
such as our network access during meetings.
Talks: Information on upcoming talks is announced separately.
For information on talks see the announcements by our
Talks Maintainer on the announce mailing list.
Food: The eating places (ranging from take away to a la Carte)
at 'The Ville' are usually open until about 10pm Saturday
night. There is also the Pizza Cafe on campus near the
Schonell Theater:
http://www.schonell.uq.edu.au/pizza_caffe.html
http://www.uq.edu.au/maps/index.phtml?menu=1&z=1&id=11
Drinks: Various soft drinks and snacks are available from the
three vending machines located immediately outside the
room. Remember to bring change!
For more information on club meetings and HUMBUG itself see our
web page at http://www.humbug.org.au/ or email me directly.
Humbug President
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Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 01:42:45 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: [FSFE PR][EN] FSF Europe Newsletter (fwd)
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1. FSFE supporting European Commission in their case against Microsoft
2. Widely noticed interview in "Die Zeit"
3. Writing new licenses often counterproductive
4. RSS feeds for FSFE news and events available
5. FSFE supports the declaration of Caceres
6. Investigations on the impact of Free Software on companies
1. FSFE supporting European Commission in their case against Microsoft
In 2001 the European Union, through the DG Competition of the European
Commission (lead by Prof. Monti), started investigating Microsoft's
dominant position in the desktop operating systems market. The Free
Software Foundation Europe was invited by the EC to represent the
interests of the Free Software movement.
Together with the Samba team, which the FSFE involved in the case and
with which it cooperated closely, we were able to provide much of the
arguments that the European Commission based its decision upon.
Microsoft recently appealed against the antitrust decision and the DG
Competition called upon FSFE in cooperation with the Samba team again
to now join the efforts of the Commission to defend that decision.
FSFE, representing itself and the Samba team as well as the interests
of the Free Software Community, has participated in the preliminary
hearing held in Luxembourg on 27th of July.
Sun, which originally started the antitrust trial in Europe, declined
to participate to the appeal, so the list of the supporters of the
Commission are: Novell, RealNetworks, CCIA (Computer & Communication
Industry Association), SIIA (Software and Information Industry
Association) and FSFE.
In the course of the upcoming months, FSFE will read and comment on
all the documentation submitted by Microsoft to sustain the idea that
"disclosing documentation on interfaces and protocols is harmful" for
their business and for consumers.
These will be busy months, so if you know anybody that values being
able to use SAMBA and could support our efforts, please tell them to
support our work with their donation.
<http://www.fsfeurope.org/help/donate.en.html>
2. Widely noticed interview in "DIE ZEIT"
"DIE ZEIT", a well-respected German newspaper, has printed an
interview with Georg Greve that has been cited in several other
newspapers and news services. Georg Greve explains why software
patents are job- and economy-killers: "Many companies are facing a low
liquitidy and can spend their money only once: either on software
patents, or on innovation."
3. Writing new licenses often counterproductive
There seems to be a trend that more and more projects create new
licenses for Free Software instead of using the well established ones
used by thousands of existing projects. The FSFE emphasises that the
GNU GPL, the GNU LGPL and the BSD-style license are excellent for most
- if not all - projects. Claims that the GPL is not fully applicable
outside the U.S. have been proven wrong by a recent court decision in
Germany.
4. RSS feeds for FSFE news and events available
Our web team has created automatic RSS feeds for news and upcoming
events. Feeds are focus and language dependent. The URL for the news
feed is:
http://www.<focus>.fsfeurope.org/news/news.<language>.rss
while you find the event feed at:
http://www.<focus>.fsfeurope.org/events/events.<language>.rss
For example, for German speaking news and the German focus, you would
choose http://www.germany.fsfeurope.org/news/news.de.rss as the URL.
For your convenience, the news and event pages contain links to the RSS
feed URLs.
5. FSFE supports the "Declaration of Caceres"
During the Free Software Summer Event of the University of Extremadura
in Caceres, Spain, Georg Greve gave a presentation on the Free
Software Foundation Europe and participated in a panel discussion
about software patents.
As closing highlight of the university course, the participants made
the "Declaration of Caceres" against software patents drafted by
Hispalinux, which was read out in Portuguese by Marcelo D'Elia Branco,
German by Georg Greve, English by Maureen O'Sullivan and finally
Spanish by the vice-rector of the University, Fernando Sanchez
Figueroa.
The FSFE officially supports this declaration, which reads:
"Freedom, equality and fraternity, the old Europe's values applied
to technology, have achieved the biggest innovative space ever
imagined. Software Patents are the countermeasure that augments
costs, bureaucracy and legal costs to stop European progress."
6. Investigations on the impact of Free Software on companies
The University Bocconi in Milan, Italy held a conference to discuss
the impact Free Software has on Italian companies. Stefano Maffulli
was invited to hold a speech in the name of the FSFE.
You can find a list of all FSF Europe newsletters on
http://www.fsfeurope.org/news/newsletter.en.html
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Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 14:48:07 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: glpk 4.6 release information (fwd)
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GLPK 4.6 -- Release Information
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Release date: Aug 04, 2004
GLPK (GNU Linear Programming Kit) is intended for solving large-scale
linear programming (LP), mixed integer linear programming (MIP), and
other related problems. It is a set of routines written in ANSI C and
organized in the form of a callable library.
In 4.6:
Three new statements were implemented in the GNU MathProg language:
solve, printf, and for. Their detailed description can be found in the
GLPK documentation included in the distribution. (See also a sample
model, examples/queens.mod, which illustrates using these statements.)
Two new API routines were added to the package: lpx_read_prob and
lpx_write_prob. They allow reading/writing problem data in GNU LP text
format.
Three new command-line options were implemented in the LP/MIP solver
glpsol: --glp (to read problem data in GNU LP format), --wglp (to write
problem data in GNU LP format), and --name (to change problem name).
Now glpsol also supports processing models where the new statements
(mentioned above) are used.
A new version of GLPKMEX, a Matlab MEX interface to GLPK, was included.
For more details see contrib/glpkmex/ChangeLog.
See GLPK web page at <http://www.gnu.org/software/glpk/glpk.html>.
GLPK distribution can be ftp'ed from <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glpk/> or
from some mirror ftp sites; see <http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html>.
MD5 check-sum is the following:
a3452392e9ec2ab3fd8a81379cf4056a *glpk-4.6.tar.gz
GLPK is also available as a Debian GNU/Linux package. See its web page
at <http://packages.debian.org/stable/math/glpk.html>.
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