From SeattleTimes.com: “A top Microsoft executive revealed yesterday how a hacker was
able to view some of the company’s top-secret source code last
October, shedding light on a notorious attack that raised concern
worldwide about network security.”

If the words didn’t send a chill down the spine of every
Microsoft (MSFT ) shareholder, they should have. At a
January investment conference, Microsoft CEO Steve
Ballmer declared: “Linux is our enemy No. 1.” A few
weeks later, James Allchin, who oversaw the rollout of
Microsoft’s Windows 2000 software, went so far as to
call Linux “a threat to the American way.” Read more at BusinessWeek.com.

Wired.com: “Internet World Wireless is saturated with wireless service providers targeting the big ISPs and telcos. Their products are certainly not geared to the everyday person. Analysts aren’t sure the market will let them flourish.”

Wired.com: “U.S. politicians are promising to shield e-mail inboxes from spam, and Congress appears poised to vote on a bill this year. But is there anything legislators can do about spam from overseas?”

MSNBC.com tells us: “If a previous online communication wasn’t completed
successfully, Money 2001 may enter into a Crash Recovery state
thwarting the Online Services Setup wizard launch in Microsoft
Money (4, 4.0a, 5 for Windows 95; 98, 99, 2000, 2001).”

From BinaryFreedom.com: “As we began our journey to find the GNU/Zen of Open Source, we were faced with two very important truths.
First, Open Source was not about no-cost software, or killing Microsoft. The GNU/Zen of Open Source was all
about the availability of the code.”

AsiaBizTech: “Red Hat KK, software developer AXE Inc. of
Kyoto, Japan, and 10art-ni Corp., a Linux-Java system integrator, have agreed to
a comprehensive collaboration ranging from development to sales of “Sikigami,” a
GUI environment for mobile Linux machines that AXE is presently developing.”

Slashdotters are talking about this SiliconValley.com posting: “Microsoft says that we are against intellectual property rights. I have no opinion on intellectual property
rights, and if you are thoughtful you will have none either.” Isn’t this a form letter?

ZDNet reports on the DoJ’s support of the Movie Industry in the case against the DeCSS DVD decrytping programme. DeCSS gets around location protection in DVDs, but the Movie Industry claims it is intended for piracy.

CNet reports that IBM has pulled its support for the Content Protection for Removable Media (CPRM) anti-copyright infringement plan, in favour of a new plan proposed by Phoenix Technologies.