MSNBC reports on a Microsoft’s efforts to appease Macintosh fans after a generation long battle between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.

Kelly McNeill writes “While it is true that it would be illegal to incorporate General Public License code into a closed proprietary system, I’d like to ask one question: How legal would it be to include Microsoft source code into one of my projects, be it open or closed?

If I use GPL’ed source code in one of my projects, then my project must also be GPL’ed. If I don’t want to GPL my code, then I shouldn’t take code from another project, and should write my own from scratch.”

ZDNet reports that Rambus is being countersued by Infineon, a company Rambus recently lost a suit to over patent infingement. Infineon is asking for Rambus to not be allowed to collect royalties on SDRAM and DDR memory.

ZDNet Computer Shopper: “Finding Linux software on the
Internet is easy, but retrieving it
can be a challenge. A complete
Linux distribution or major
application can easily weigh in at
tens or even hundreds of
megabytes–far too big to download unless you’re
blessed with major bandwidth.

Linux2order is coming to the rescue.”

Kyle Lynch writes “The new Mozilla 0.9+ Nightly Builds are up on the Mozilla FTP servers. These builds feature a beautiful new Modern theme, more features, and definately much more. I have just installed it, so I cannot tell you the entire extent of the changes, so go out to mozilla.org and get a copy!”

News.com: “Caldera International completed its acquisition of Santa Cruz Operation’s
software business Monday, uniting one of the few publicly traded Linux
companies with one of the companies struggling to keep its version of Unix
relevant.”

Anonymous Reader writes “Looking to liberalize present Danish copyright laws that are more strict than other European nations the government is preparing a new law that will open up ‘fair use’ rules among its citizens. The new law will allow all forms of digital copying for private use, including the right to download music from the Internet.

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From IBM developerWorks: “As the volume of information grows, effective means of locating specific information become ever more crucial. This column discusses
the field of full-text indexing, with a focus on the author’s public-domain indexer module.”

On Slashdot: “IEEE Spectrum has an opinion piece this month on Open-source Biology and
Its Impact on Industry. The article speculates about advancements in biology and
biological-based manufacturing and how it is likely impossible for anyone to keep control of
the Intellectual Property around genetic engineering. If software was as easy to produce and
prevalent as DNA, then it would be similarly impossible to control software as IP.”

Shares of chip designer Transmeta dropped sharply today, after the company’s lockup restrictrions expired. The restrictions prohibited sales of the stock in the first few months after Transmeta’s IPO. Full story at Upside.