Etoys.com seems to have thrown in the towel and decided to stop abusing etoy.com. Of course, they’re not actually dropping their suit (at least not yet), and the preliminary order by the judge barring etoy.com from using their domain name still stands (at least for now), so I wouldn’t clsasify this as officially over. The cynic in me says that etoys.com caved in because they knew that in a real trial, they’d lose anyway.
Elliotte Rusty Harold makes some good arguments in his response to RMS’s idea that software documentation should use the same license as free software.
Chalk another one up for the good guys–the morons at the DVD Copy Control Association got slapped down today at the preliminary hearing of their suit against publishers of DVD crack information and people who linked to it.
Unforeseen Y2K-related problem: hard drive grunge. People are recommending that systems be rebooted after midnight tomorrow night to verify that various system components are still working. Unfortunately, hard drives on systems that have been up and running for a very long time can sieze up when they’re stopped, due to grunge buildup. I wonder if that’s why so many hard drives fail when servers are moved from one location to another? When pair.com moved, the hard drives on tons of their servers failed.