NW Fusion reports on Sun joining the Microsoft-led project toward Universal Plug and Play (UPnP).

NW Fusion reports on Brian Behlendorf’s speech at Apache Con Europe on how to pitch Open Source software to corporations, cautionning that managers are scared of the unknown but that the fact needs to be accepted rather than fought.

Linux PR tells of an IBM Linux wrist watch coming on display later this morning in Boston.

Herring Magazine talks of the DMCA and the negative effects it is having on the population beyond the pirates it was intended to hold at bay.

ZDNet discusses the controversy caused by the first releases of the Crusoe processor to consumers. The benchmarks are unfavourable say some, but benchmarks aren’t fair say the opposition.

ZDNet reports that Microsoft has issued a cease and desist letter to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison for violating the license agreement of its SQL server.

InfoWorld has a story about a person who posted an @Home internal memo to a Usenet newsgroup and several web pages. The pages were taken down under the DMCA, by @Home. Slashdot has a discussion on the story.

Read the advisory at LWN.net: An error existed in the authorization checks in the version of cyrus-sasl
shipped with Red Hat Linux 7. Due to this bug, users who had been
successfully authenticated could be allowed access to resources even if the
system had been configured to deny these users access.

The advisory is at LWN.net: Red Hat has put out an update to the apache package that fixes some
vulnerabilities in the mod_rewrite module, and a problem in the
virtual hosting facilities. They have also released an update to the
php3 package, fixing a potential exploit with a format string problem
in that package.

From Gartner Viewpoint on CNet: “Crusoe-based computers are a major milestone for Transmeta and a critical step toward long-term
viability for the company. Nonetheless, Crusoe-based devices will likely appeal most to a niche
market: mobile users who want a small, light computing device but believe current personal digital
assistants aren’t powerful enough.” A ZDNet story says critics of Transmeta don’t like that the chip sacrifices speed for battery life.