O’Reilly discusses some of the presentations coming up during the O’Reilly Open Source Convention in San Diego, CA, from July 23rd to July 26th, 2001.

CNET News.com reports the Einstein Computer has filed suite against Gateway, accusing the company of fraud and breach of contract. Einstein (a subsidiary of something called the Legal Club of America) is seeking $200 million in the suit.

CRN: “What the federal government should do is regulate Windows in the same way it
regulates public utilities. Microsoft should have the ability to improve its product
and add functionality to Windows that would prevent it from becoming obsolete.
What it shouldn’t be allowed to do is abuse the fact that there really isn’t an alternative to Windows on the
desktop.”

The Industry Standard: “It just wouldn’t feel like summer without a lawsuit
alleging online copyright infringement. The latest
is the one that seven major motion picture studios
filed June 27 against peer-to-peer file-swapping
service Aimster, which lets users access their
“buddy lists” to trade files with one another.

The litigation reflects Hollywood’s belief that, as
the studios’ lawyers put it, Aimster is “presenting
the same threat that the recording industry said it
faced from Napster.””

EE Times: “A consortium of more than 20 companies including HP,
Intel, Sun and Linux proponents is quietly forming to draft an application
programming interface for Infiniband on Unix. The group, which could
launch formally before the end of the summer, hopes to have a first draft
of the API available for free licensing by the end of the year.

The API could give developers of servers, server-based applications and
systems software a leg up on optimizing their systems and applications to
get the full benefits of the Infiniband interconnect, which is expected to
emerge in 2002.”

Anonymous Reader writes “Just add power (and a crystal) to the chip and you have
a Linux computer with network connection and a wide
range of I/O options. Axis Communications, maker of the
ETRAX system-on-chip, has integrated over fifty components
into a single 27mm x 27mm PBGA IC package. Story at LinuxDevices.com”

Advogato: “With the ‘death’ and rebirth of ORBS and the “subscription only” change to MAPS, and overall the prevailing problem of
spam, it’s time to do something. This article proposes (and asks for feedback on) a method using trust metrics.

Opt-out doesn’t work. Contrary to my illustrious Senator Ron Wyden here in Oregon, I think opt-out isn’t an close to an
answer.

RBL aka MAPS is now going to be a ‘pay’ service, and it wasn’t very effective anyway.

ORBS, even after the fork, has never a huge deterrent either.”

Reuters: “Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.’s chief
rival in the market for microprocessors, reported second-quarter
results that topped sharply lowered expectations as the company was
hit by flagging personal computer sales and fierce competition.

It also cautioned it may report a third-quarter operating loss and
forecast a sequential decline in sales of 10 percent to 15 percent from
second quarter levels.”

eWEEK reports that Apple Computer is set to open its next round of brick-and-mortar retail outlets. Joining existing storefronts in Glendale, Calif. and McLean, Va. that opened in May 2001 will be new outlets in Woodcliff Lake, N.J.;
Albany and Buffalo, N.Y.;
Chandler, Ariz.; Clarendon,
Va.; Miami, Tampa and
Wellington Green, Fla.;
Peabody and Cambridge,
Mass.; Palo Alto and Newport
Beach, Calif.; Germantown,
Tenn.; West Hartford, Conn.;
Columbus, Ohio;
Bloomington, Minn.;
Schaumburg, Ill.; and Plano,
Texas.

ZDNet News: “Online vandals and network intruders used to finding easy prey on the
Internet had better watch out.

The Honeynet Project–a group of experts in computer security, information intelligence and
psychology–unveiled Thursday its plans for improving “honeynets,” collections of computers
designed to let hackers break into a false network while allowing investigators to watch their
every move.”