Andy Tai writes “This is to announce the latest version of the “Software Wars” map. It
describes, in simple graphics, the current software world. Using the
analogy of war maps between countries, it shows the current situation
more effectively than texts in many articles. Since 1997, this map
has been periodically updated to reflect the on-going events. The
latest updates reflect the intensified struggle between Microsoft and
Open Source/Free Software. See it at

http://www.atai.org/softwarewar.png

Old versions can be accessed from the top of the web page

http://www.atai.org/index.html

Enjoy!” It speaks for itself.

The Standard reports on a group of American senators who are trying to renew the three-year old ban on Internet access and usage taxes.

Dallas News reports that the British Broadcasting Corporation will cease its shortwave service to North America, citing the higher audiences of Internet and FM listeners. The BBC world service is the latest casualty of the Internet.

ZDNet reports that Red Hat is to release its own databasing software called Red Hat Database, as part of its software strategy.

The BBC reports that iFone, a British phone developer, is planning to revive old Atari games for use on mobile phones. Among the games the company is negotiating for the rights to use are Pong, Centipede, Frogger, and Asteroids.

ZDNet reports that Microsoft’s lawyers are joining the fray against Open Source software, adding a clause in the license of a new piece of Microsoft software that prohibits it from being used in conjunction with “viral” software.

CNet reports that Lynuxworks, the last remaining Linux-oriented company to have an initial public offering pending, has withdrawn it.

LinuxPR: “Victor Yodaiken, founder and CEO of
Finite State Machine Labs: The RTLinux[tm] Company, has been appointed
technical advisor to EMBLIX, the Japanese Embedded Linux Consortium.”

Anonymous Reader writes “IBM released a New Open Source project called the iSCSI Initiator. The IBM iSCSI Initiator is an open source project intended for Linux clients but may be adapted to other operating systems if desired. The source is being made available to help foster the IETF iSCSI work group and their draft iSCSI standard.”

BSD Today: “Jordan Hubbard sent an announcement covering FreeBSD release schedule to the FreeBSD announce
mailing list. This article shares that announcement and a few added notes from Jordan.

Jordan said there’s been several thousand changes in all areas of the system and the diffs between 4.3
and 5.0 currently run to over 150MB.”