LBN Industry News Desk

The announcement came in the form of a concise e-mail to the gentoo-nfp mailing list: From: Daniel Robbins Subject: Resigning from development role Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.nfp Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 11:48:49 +0000 Hi All, As of today, I am resigning from my development responsibilities for Gentoo. This includes my role as Chief Architect and as manager of release engineering. I am not appointing a replacement Chief Architect. For releng, Zhen is doing an excellent job leading this effort and I would like him to be able to continue his work in this area. Regards, Daniel Dubbed last here at LinuxWorld, "a distribution by geeks, for geeks and for nobody but geeks," Gentoo has gained over the past 12 months a rapidly increasing, fiercely loyal group of us... (more)

SCO vs The Rest: AutoZone Asks Court for Delay

US car parts retailer AutoZone, based in Western Tennessee and currently the target (along with DaimlerChrysler) of a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the SCO Group, has filed various motions in the case.  One asks the court to transfer the case from Nevada, where the company is incorporated, to Western Tennessee, where the company headquarters are situated. Another, the most impor... (more)

Wind River Continues Its Linux Push

"Our customers are demanding that we deliver Linux solutions incorporating the latest kernel.org releases that are scalable, reliable and high performing, backed with the 20+ years of support and professional services capabilities that only Wind River can deliver." That, according to John Fanelli, vice president, product planning and management, Wind River, is why his company is expandin... (more)

Winer Says Apple Goes Too Far with RSS

In what may appear to be an abstruse argument to those not intimately involved with spec development, the recent criticism of Apple may appear to be confusing and perhaps irrelevant. But it goes to the heart of the ongoing debates between open-source software (OSS) advocates and the creeping propretitarianism taken by most large technology companies. With the release of iTunes 4.9, Apple i... (more)

Can Hurd Restore HP Through Cost-Cutting? 14,500 Jobs Cut at Hewlett Packard

He did it while he was CEO of NCR Corp through cost-cutting. Can HP's new CEO Mark Hurd (pictured) now do it again at HP? 15,000 employees may find out today - the hard way. In a move expected to save as much as $1.5BN annually, Hurd is widely expected to announce today major cuts in HP's workforce. He will brief analysts and reporters this morning on details of the plan. "It would be wron... (more)