ZDNet has a column about Microsoft’s comments and Caldera’s Ransom Love’s comments on the GPL. “All I’m saying is that from where I sit, having
watched Open Source and the businesses around it for more than a decade, I’m with Love on
this one. Bottom line, if I were an ISV, I’d be writing my programs under BSD. Your licenses may
vary.”

Binary Freedom has an update on the court case. “What may be considered an optimistic event has taken place in the developments of the DeCSS trial. The U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has modified the deadline for response until May 30th. Rather than
the 10-page limit that was stated on May 1st, the court has extended the page submission to 25.” More from the 2600.com site.

From ZDNet: “Startup Memora Corp. is attempting to create a new product category — ‘personal server.’

A name reminiscent of ‘personal computer,’ the term ‘personal server’ is meant to convey the
idea of an appliance-like device that performs a range of useful services and can be easily
installed and operated by nontechnical users in their homes. Accordingly, the company is billing
its initial product offering, the Servio Personal Server, as ‘the first personal server for the
home.’ ”

LinuxSecurity.com interviews people from Cylant Technology, Inc. about the contest on cracking a Red Hat box, and “the experiences gained from holding it.”

Bill Kendrick writes, “I had the opportunity to meet Bradley LaRonde, CEO and main developer at Agenda Computing this week. He did a talk at NBLUG in Sebastopol, CA on May 8th. It seems they’re making the rounds, with an appearance and sponsorship of SDLUG’s (San Diego) May 16th meeting, a talk at NTLUG (Dallas) on June 16th, and keynotes at both the OSDN Handheld Conference in Austin on June 18th and the Embeded Linux Expo in San Jose on June 26th or 27th.”

The Register: “IBM will launch its upcoming Itanium-based workstation, the IntelliStation
Z-Pro 6894, when Intel tells it that it can and not a moment sooner.

“It’s ready to ship as soon as Intel allows us to do so,” said Steve
Horobin, IBM Personal Systems Group’s EMEA workstation marketing
chief with special responsibility for the finance sector (but not job titles,
clearly).

And Horobin confirmed that Intel will officially roll-out Itanium on 29 May –
at 6am Pacific Time, to be precise – as we revealed a couple of days
back.”

ZDNet: “Startup Memora Corp. is attempting to create a
new product category–the “personal server.” A
name reminiscent of “personal computer,” the term
“personal server” is meant to convey the idea of
an appliance-like device that performs a range of
useful services and can be easily installed and
operated by nontechnical users in their homes.
Accordingly, the company is billing its initial
product offering, the Servio Personal Server, as
“the first ‘personal server’ for the home.””

MSNBC: “Mix a rabid love of freedom
with an intense dislike of corporate or state-sponsored
censorship, fold in the wacky collective brilliance of a
group of rogue coders, and what do you get? Tyranny’s
worst nightmare: an untraceable, globally distributed
digital information network called Peekabooty.”

Network World Fusion reports that OmniSky will charge users of Compaq’s iPaq device $20 more per month for its wireless services. OmniSky says the extra cost is justified, because the iPaq consumes more airtime than other portable devices. Analysts say the extra cost could influence corporate IT purchasing decisions.

InfoWorld reports that Microsoft today raised the curtain on its new licensing program. The new agreement allows customers with 250 or more computers to license enterprise software as a subscription service. The license, named the Enterprise Agreement 6.0 Subscription Program, lowered its minimum number of computers requirement — the previous minimum was 500. A Microsoft spokesperson says “80 percent of our customers will see no change to their licensing costs or the costs will decrease.”