Awhile back I got a "freebie" magazine called simply "Open" -- the magazine
has gone out of "print" (at least, in the paper sense): the issues are now
all "online" [in html & pdf forms] and this issue certainly deals with a
topic that is hard to quantify if it is "on" or "off" topic for this list:
what will the "merged" HP/compaq company do next?  [plus a rather excellent
rebuttal to the "typical microsoft script" of why open source is a "bad
thing"...]

thankfully, the teaser from them is relatively short -- I don't think they
do any actual "validation" as to whether or not you were a "subscriber", so
the link below should work:
-----Original Message-----
From: Open Magazine [mailto:[log in to unmask]]

For Open Magazine Subscribers

Key Linux vendors, IBM, Dell, HP, Compaq, and Sun, are in new tactical
focus at D.H. Brown. We talk to the study's author, Pierre Fricke, who
ponders HP and its Linux vending future, including the time when HP and
Compaq pool strengths for Linux market penetration.

Turning away from Linux, the FUD-mongers warning everyone from business
executives to government leaders how they will unleash doom rife with
economic chaos, collapsing bridges, and starving river otters should
they turn to Open Source truly meet their match. Everyone's
talking about how the myth of the Open Source Apocalypse has finally
been debunked in the form of a Peruvian congressman's letter to
Microsoft, which has fired web site postings across the globe. Rather
than just talk around it, we decided to reconstruct the heroic letter in
a proprietary vs. Open Source point/counterpoint format to reveal its
significance as an exquisitely precise vivisection of Microsoft's
anti-Open Source propagandists.

Next, we find a person who can speak NT, UNIX, and Linux software
application dialects fluently. He is Jon Power, CEO of Sector7, which
helps corporations achieve application migration. Read his advice to the
Linux fear-lorn.

As your Subscriber Express Pass to our web, just click
http://www.open-mag.com/141421356237.htm to go straight to the
subscriber home page and story links. And don't forget to send a copy to
your friends mired in proprietary systems.

Regards,

The editors of Open magazine

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