The BBC has more information on communications giant Nokia hosting an Open Source, open standards home entertainment box development project. Slashdotters also discuss the news, and here’s the press release.

Interactive Week has a story about how Open Source software is popping up at “more and more enterprises” even though some IT managers still have reservations.

ZDNet News UK: “In a softening of its earlier position, Microsoft has said it will
support the Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 high-speed
connection technology in its next version of Windows — but
only in the form of add-on drivers.”

From the Wall Street Journal (via ZDNet News): “You thought upgrading the operating system of a single PC was a chore.
Imagine the headaches involved in revamping millions of servers across
the globe so they can better route traffic over the Internet.

It is a problem that engineers, government researchers and entrepreneurs have
been grappling with for a decade. Many of those people will meet this week in Ottawa
to update efforts to coordinate the global move to the upgrade, dubbed Internet
Protocol version 6, or IPv6.”

“Nokia has reiterated that it is turning to the Linux community to ensure
that its Media Terminal set-top box, due to be launched later this year,
has plenty of applications from the word go.

In particular, it wants games developers to get coding for MT, based
around what Nokia is now calling its Open Source Terminal platform.” Full story at The Register.

Paulo Henrique Caruso writes “Cédric Godart was the Linux Today French Version editor, which have recently announced its breakdown. The Belgian journalist talks about the polemic decision from internet.com in a special interview.

Read this at

OLinux.”

Freeb writes “According to this post on FoRK, Microsoft continues to move Anders Hejlsberg’s whizzy new C# language towards being an ECMA standard. The specs themselves are pretty huge, so it will take a while to chew through them, but creating an alternative implementation seems like an intriguing possibility (and a big job).”

joabj writes “ZD Net has a story on how Microsoft’s developer base for Visual Basic may be eroding. A March survey found that the use of VB slipped in the last year by almost 20 percent for programmers using multiple languages–from 62 to 46 percent. A quote from one programmer summed up why this may so: “They have changed Visual Basic to make it more like C++, which begs the question: Why don’t we just use C++ or Delphi? Or Java?””

Chicago Tribune: “For independent DSL providers, the reality has fallen far short of the
promise. Wall Street lost confidence. Plans to create nationwide
networks were scaled back. Many independents are going broke.

Emerging dominant in the DSL market are the century-old phone
companies against whom complaints had piled up for shoddy service
and long installation waits.”

Help Net Security: “It is possible to insert a pointer into a linked list that will allow
overwriting of any value in memory that is followed by 4 null characters
(a null pointer). one such memory location is the last entry on the GOT
(global offset table). When another item is added to the linked list, the
address of the data (a filename) is inserted over the last value,
effectively redefining the function to the code represented by the
filename.”