A bug has been found in a major Linux Wi-Fi driver that can allow an attacker to take control of a laptop -- even when it is not on a Wi-Fi network.

This editorial is an experiment. It was originally written by Radu-Cristian Fotescu for his blog, but he offered us the chance to publish it here on The Jem Report as well. It is extremely long, and divided up into separate pages, which is something I don't usually do with articles. So the format in which this is published is the first experiment. The second experiment is a matter of this article's content. I don't agree with everything Radu-Cristian says in his article, but I very much agree with what he is doing, which is to take a brutally honest look at the failures of the open source community and demand that we begin to recognize them instead of continuing to ignore the parts that aren't working correctly.

Here is the Linuxlookup.com weekly wrap-up, some of the hottest stories in the Linux community this week were...

- Dell's March To Linux PCs Won't Be A Walk In The Park

- SCO uses IBM-donated ibiblio servers too!

- OLPC's Linux-based operating system available for download

- Palm Announces New Linux Based Mobile Platform

- Novell Joins The Green Grid

- Can Open Source "Rescue" Microsoft?

- Cedega 6.0 Released

- Dell-Linux Marriage: Desktop Prominence Or Five-Year Setback?

- GNOME 2.18.1 Released

- Introducing Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10

- Newly-leaked Antitrust Memo: Bill Gates on Making ACPI Not Work with Linux

- Wine 0.9.35 Released

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Wine 0.9.35 was released today, with the following main changes:

Most of you probably remember the delisting trouble SCO got into because they failed to timely file their 10-K back in 2005. The same story will show up again soon, but this time for another reason: the stock price is too low to meet Nasdaq's requirements.

Open source software has changed the rules of the game, impacting significantly the economic behavior of stakeholders in the software ecosystem. In this new environment, developers strive to be committers, vendors feel pressure to produce open source products, and system integrators anticipate boosting profits.