More evidence that IBM really gets it: at least some people there see Linux as a top to bottom answer to all their operating system needs. They’re running Beowulf on massive clusters of Intel-based servers, and they’re also running thousands of copies of Linux concurrently on a single mainframe. Cool stuff.
Developers are skeptical about Microsoft’s proposed concessions in the antitrust case.
Mike Godwin has an extensive article on the Digital Millenium Copyright Act in the National Law Journal. The DMCA is an evil law that punishes people for circumventing copy protection even if they own the protected work itself. It’s the club being used to bludgeon the people who wrote DeCSS.
The legend of BSD, by Annalee Newitz.
From the way Tim O’Reilly tells it, MP3.com is a really cool place to work.
To steal a theme from the X-Files … when it comes to Web patents, the prior art is out there.