IDG News Service reports that Sendmail’s e-mail software will be included as standard in IBM’s eServer family.

Inter@ctive Week has a story on how the Open Source community is dealing with patents, featuring a developer who “posted a notice on his Web site earlier this year, offering a free license to anyone who uses his patented ideas in software protected by the Gnu Public License. In other words, anyone who shares ‘open source’ or free software doesn’t have to worry about Levien suing for patent infringement.”

suneido.com now includes a library of sample applications available for free download. The initial applications include:

• a development snapshot of Axon’s accounting application
• a Suneido version of Kent Beck’s unit testing framework
• an automated email processing application

Suneido is a free open-source integrated object-oriented language, client-server relational database, and application framework for Windows written in C++.

– Submitted by Andrew McKinlay

An AP item on StarTribune.com reports that Microsoft has been ordered to pay Bristol Technology $3.7 million in legal fees. This comes on the heels of an earlier decision in which the Seattle-based software manufacturer was ordered to pay the company $1 million for engaging in unfair trade practices.

News.com is reporting that Jason Allen Diekman, a 20-year-old cracker from Mission Viejo, Calif., has pleaded guilty to federal charges of infiltrating computer systems at Stanford University and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Dell Canada today announced a special promotion for Linux users who create professional-looking graphics for print or the Web. The offer combines Dell’s Precision workstation with deeply discounted pricing for CorelDRAW Graphics Suite for Linux.

The Register reports that Eazel will release a second preview version of its Nautilus GUI later today. Designed as a network user environment for GNOME, Nautilus promises to tie file management, Web browsing, and system management into a single interface.

To sidestep a European tax on gaming machines, Sony has added YA-Basic, an open source distribution of the classic programming language, to its new gaming system. This bundle will be exclusive to Playstation 2 consoles distributed in Europe. From a report at The Register.

A Reuters story posted on News.com reports that the Republican National Committee’s Web site was cracked just hours before polls opened on Tuesday.

Stock of Santa Clara, California-based Transmeta (TMTA) rose 100 percent to $42 in first-day trading. Shares priced Monday night at $21 each, substantially above a recently raised expected price range of $16 to $18. From Wired News.