Enjoy the digest:
The SCO/IBM case is stirring some incredible responses. In particular, this
open letter from Eric S. Raymond, President of the OSI, is stunning:
http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/08/22/1746248.shtml
The Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) issues a report
advising companies to continue to use Linux and ignore "Unnecessary fears":
http://asia.cnet.com/newstech/applications/0,39001094,39148140,00.htm
Having little indigenous chop manufacturing plant and lots of engineers, Arabs
are big on virtual design labs and Open core design:
http://www.eedesign.com/story/OEG20030822S0011
Interview with Rick Devenuti, vice president and chief information officer for
Microsoft, on how they "eat their own dogfood":
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2001608240_devenuti25.html
Hitachi announce the availability of their new 4GB Microdrive mini-hard disk,
due in November for US$499 ($1,000 cheaper than Flash). 2GB ver. also made:
http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-5067530.html
SCO's Main web site is taken down by a DDoS attack following revelations that
SCO tried to pass off Open Source code by Dennis Ritchie as their own:
http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-5067743.html
Report on Prof. Kevin Warwick's work on direct neural interfacing, turning
himself into a cyborg and remote sensing over 5,000 miles:
http://www.smalltimes.com/document_display.cfm?document_id=6526
And finally. The world mobile phone throwing championships in Savonlinna,
Finland set a new record of 66.72 metres, with the junior teams managin 25.4:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11177
News collated from various sources by Vik Olliver for ECONZ Ltd. The views presented in this document are those of the collator, not those of ECONZ Ltd.