Mark Harrison writes "Jim Barksdale and Marc Andreesen both have posted columns on home.netscape.com reagarding the source code release. Barksdale's column is especially interesting. He is a pretty sharp suit. " Read Bark's Comments and Marc's Comments "

Jamie Zawinksi wrote in to tell me to tell everyone to lay off Mozilla.org and try one of the many mirrors- the huge demand has crippled the machine. Hit the link below to get a decent list of com and edu mirrors. Update:Couple of neato things, A screenshot of NS5 was sent in by Christopher Blizzard, and an insider who requested anonymity sent us a picture from this mornings big event, wrote "The main three people in this picture are Jim Barksdale, Jamie, and Tara Hernandez. Tara is manager of the build team. Just to the left of JimB is Jim Roskind, who led the Java-ectomy." Thanks guys.

Allright, the new site is up, and just about fully functional. Thanks to everyone who has been just wailing email on me all day (and all last night) with comments/bugs etc. Please follow the link below and read a few points and help me smooth everything out before monday when my spring break is over and I stop having spare time to fix bugs :)

Paul Fisher writes "Eben Moglen, professor of law and legal history at Columbia Law School, and Outside General Counsel to the Free Software Foundation, at the request of Richard Stallman, has recently written an article expressing legal views about the GPL/NPL/MPL license issues.". You can read it on the news server or on this web page.

Jamie Zawinski of about:jwz fame writes "Hey, hype my party! Anyone who cares about open source is invited, and I'm sure that includes all Slashdot readers. Flyer, FAQ Read the FAQ. It's, uh, funny. " Join in the fun of celebrating one of the most important events in modern computing.

Nate Oostendorp, one of my beloved room mates (and co creator of the Mystery Project) and I came up with, and then he implemented the most stupid HTML trick of all:gif2html. Not only does it make a 1k gif into a 100k HTML table that usually crashes netscape, but its fun for the whole family! Check it out, he has an example of a Slashdot logo too *hehe*.

Paul Fisher writes about RMSs latest NPL comments. Paul posted a copy of it here or you can read the threads at Netscape's license newsgroup or the gnu.misc.discuss version.

Karl Fogel contributed this editorial on Microsoft, and why they are a problem. It is well written and makes a lot of good points very clear and you should read it carefully and think about it. This isn't the typical 'Microsoft Sucks' rant, read it with an open mind.

Exciting news guys, Ben Gertzfield wrote in to give us This link where he talks about his day at Netscape. They compiled the code that is almost ready for release. They compiled it under Lestif on a Debian Linux box, and it was a bit unstable, but it compiled. Lots of interesting stuff in this one, it is a must read.

Hey guys, it's spring break for me, so rather then spend the next hour entering articles, here's a list of quickies: Danny O'Brien sent in a link to NTK Live show, the RealAudio version of Need to Know, the very cool weekly geek 'zine. Vladimir Vuksan wrote in to tell us that Netscape is having a party to celebrate Open Source. Funny stuff on that page. Next Dave Finton sent in this link about how employers use the net to find info on potential employees. Finally we have BeOS Releasing another beta sent in by Hans Veneman. Now to find my beer, a copy of Fantasia, and stick in some Floyd.

Matt Garland wrote in (along with several others) to tell us that the Wall Street Journal is running a bit on Apache on the front page of the Marketplace Section. Positive stuff, including the comment that Apache really is causing trouble for Netscape and Microsoft. Not surprising really, but interesting.

Well guys, we got number 2 million a scant couple months after our first million. Thanks to everyone who keeps visiting, especially the guys who send us cool new stories and post good comments to the discussions! Keep it up. The lucky winner was a Netscape 4.04 user under Linux 2.1.90 over at appliedtheory.com. Half a million hits a month... any potential advertisers paying attention?

John Hartnup writes " Apache Week links to this article about blueprints for Netscape-as-Open-Source. I thought you'd like to know, since it uses Linux as a case study, but falls over itself to find disadvantages, without mentioning many of the advantages... in fact the worst thing they can say about Linux is that there are two versions of Emacs!! A king among non-seqs..." Terrible. two versions of Emacs. How terrible it must be to have a choice.

A lot of people have sent me various links related to the shortcomings on the NPL. Netscape has been working really hard to try to make the license good for everyone, and is listening to everyones feedback for the final revision. Markus Fleck wrote in to give us this link (or try this one where you can read RMSs criticisms on the NPL. There is also a discussion going on at gnu.misc.discuss if you're interested.

Allan J. Heim writes "I just picked up the March issue of Westech's High Technology Careers magazine (http://www.hightechcareers.com/), a free jobs magazine published a few times a year. On the cover was an article entitled "Is Learning UNIX Worth the Time?" here's the online version."

Warren E. Downs has written an awesome editorial on the future of openness, Microsoft's monopoly, the browser integration issue and more.

This InfoWorld Story talks about Netscape, their source, and misc stuff related to it. We should be seeing some source code at the end of march. This is still the most important thing that has happened in 1998. I can't wait to see what happens by the end of april. Thanks to James Ratliff .

Corel is Cutting Costs on software these days. Garrett sent us this note. Ready for a crazy idea? Corel is the best company to try GPLing (or NPLing) their office suite. Think about it: WP already has a unix port, so it has appeal to typical FSF junkies. The primary issue here is how Corel can make money- Netscape has revenue from Servers, but WordPerfect is a major cash cow. Hit the link below to read about the latest concept in my damn foolish idealistic crusade.

Raju Tavadia wrote in to give us this link and this one to a pair of articles about the Palm III- with pictures of the beast.

Hans Cathcart wrote in to correct me on James Nicolson's comments yesterday about the 3com/Pilot/Linux port. Apparently The Linux/microcontroller Project is still doing the port, so I'm not sure what 3com's connection was in all this. The huge response that the article recieved on Slashdot is something that high ranking people at 3com should see. Geek appeal sold a lot of Pilots- Linux will sell even more. They should do everything they can to support this project (read:Big cash donations to TLMP).

Today, Netscape released a draft version of its development license. From what I understand of it, it's like the GPL in that if you change it, you must make the modifications generally available (but not necessarily on the same medium as the compiled product). An interesting twist is that it also includes a patent license for all the patents applying to the original code.