LWN has a link to this article on ZDNet written by Richard French, senior vice president of the Open Source Development Network, rebutting Jack MacCrisken’s critisism of Open Source advocates. (Disclaimer: NewsForge is a part of OSDN.)

An Anonymous Reader writes: “The JDK 1.4 logging API is being developed part of JSR47, led by Graham Hamilton. Log4j began as an alphaWorks project by Ceki Gülcü, and is now part of the Apache Jakarta group. Ceki Gülcü performs a comparison and urges us to lobby Sun to adopt log4j as the logging API shipped with JDK 1.4.

http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/docs/critique.html“

In another response to the recent Microsoft attacks on OpenSource and the GPL, an Op-Ed has been posted on Kuro5hin. It covers the intent of the GPL, how it protects and retains freedows for the developers using it, as well as benefits to businesses and others.

For those interested in seeing the Tomb Raider movie, Wired reviews the points of the movie. “There’s no denying that some people will enjoy the film adaptation of the video game Tomb Raider, which opened Friday and stars the smirky Angelina Jolie in the title role.“

ZDNet asks if computers really think, citing several several science fiction stories of artifical intelligence, and discussing where we currently are in the development of such technologies.

Enrique Verdes writes “The UYLUG (Uruguayan Linux Users Group)is organizing an event which will take place on the 28th, 29th and 30th days of June, in the Town’s Main Building Conference Center in Montevideo, Uruguay. The event has the sponsorship of IBM, UNESCO, ANTel (state’s telephone company) and other companies and organizations. Richard M. Stallman and Rasmus Lerdorf are the key speakers, along with GNU/Linux and Free Software experts from Argentina, Brazil, Spain and Uruguay. Visit the event’s site for more information.”

Crypto-Gram has an article about network security, and the efforts of a new project called the Honeynet Project, intended to study the tactics of black-hat crackers in the ongoing war for Internet security.

Anonymous Reader writes “Stephen Balacco, a senior analyst at Venture Development Corporation (VDC), has
written a whitepaper entitled Linux’s Future in the Embedded Market which summarizes
the results of VDC’s recently completed Embedded Linux market study. The whitepaper
provides a market overview (including annual revenue projections) and discusses the
future of Linux in the embedded market. read it here“

CRN’s Frank J. Olhorst comments on the possible effects that nonperpetual software licensing — Office XP requiring a new license every three years for example — and the possible effect it will have on software innovation: “raditionally, an established
software vendor makes the brunt of its
profits from creating innovative products
that users desire, either as a new purchase
or as an upgrade.

The question now becomes, when a
software vendor is guaranteed ongoing
revenue from subscription-style licensing,
will that vendor bother to enhance its
products? From the bean counters’
standpoint, why exert the effort?”

Reuters (via CNET) reports that Microsoft has settled for “an undisclosed reward” with XBOX Technologies, a small tech holding company, for use of the name Xbox on its forthcoming gaming console. XBOX Technologies filed applications with the USPTO to use the name Xbox more than six months before Microsoft filed to use the name.