The New Scientist reports that the head of NASA, the American space agency, has stated that there will be astronauts on Mars within 20 years. It’s worth note that Kennedy’s moon challenge was realised in under ten years without the benefit of a lot of the modern technology the space program takes for granted today.

Info World reports further on Rambus’ patent-infringement lawsuit against Infineon which has backfired against the company, resulting in a suit to stop all royalties and now a $3,500,000 fine for fraud.

Linux Journal asks if Linux would be the success it is today without Ray Noorda planting seeds of question about whether a Microsoft monopoly was wise, and says a similar seed is being planted over Intel’s domination of the processor market.

Linux Insider reports on OSSIM (“awesome”), or Open Source Software Image Map, which is a library that “provides high performance remote sensing, mapping and imaging processing capabilities.

Linux Journal reports on RLX Technologies Inc.’s new System 324 box, which packs 24 Transmeta-based “server blades” into a 3U chassis.

ZDNet reports that the CEO of Caldera, which recently claimed to be the world’s largest Linux company, has come out in support of Microsoft’s position that the GPL is bad for business, and said Caldera will be adding a BSD-based license to its repertoire.

ZDNet reports that the CEO of Caldera, which recently claimed to be the world’s largest Linux company, has come out in support of Microsoft’s position that the GPL is bad for business, and said Caldera will be adding a BSD-based license to its repertoire.

From AustralianIT: “Privacy advocates have slammed hacker lobby
group 2600 over its decision to offer a
reverse phone number search on the internet.

2600, which describes itself as ‘a
loose-knit group of people interested in
computer security’, says its Black Pages
reverse search function is offered in an
effort to put useful technology into the
hands of ordinary people.”

ZDNet: “First Java, then Jini and now Sun has decided
to play peer-to-peer with Juxtapose or JXTA.
Is this the foundation of a very new type of
Web?”

LinuxPR: “Kivio is our answer to Visio from Microsoft for Linux/KDE. Withe the 1.0
release we are now announcing a partner program to encourage more
rapid stencil set development.

If you’ve made a great stencil set for Kivio or would like to, we’d like to
hear from you.”