People are mumbling that the IBM PC biz sale is a prelude to
some kind of new IBM/Apple deal.

Is IBM Dumping Its PC Division So It Can Gobble Apple?

] Graphics chip leader Nvidia announced Tuesday that it is
] working with Sony to develop the graphics processor for
] the next version of Sony's PlayStation video game
] console.

Interesting ... they're staying in this market after their fallout with Microsoft over the whole inventory/pricing mess with Xbox.

Nvidia to work on PlayStation 3 chip

] We have drafted a new open source license based on the
] Mozilla Public License, version 1.1 ("MPL"). We have
] worked hard to make the Common Development and
] Distribution License ("CDDL") as reusable as possible.

Sun's new open-source license; they haven't yet committed to
releasing Solaris 10 under this but it sounds like that's the idea. They've submitted it to OSI; it sounds like it is definitely not GPL-compatible. I'm not sure if it even matters; does anyone think Solaris code ending up in the Linux kernel or vice-versa would be a good thing?

Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) Information

] NEW YORK (AP) -- International Business Machines Corp.
] has reportedly put its personal computer business for
] sale in a deal that could fetch as much as $2 billion and
] close an era for an industry pioneer that long ago
] shifted its focus to more lucrative segments of the
] computer business. Its stock rose nearly 2 percent in
] midday trading in the wake of the report.
]
] The New York Times reported Friday that IBM is in serious
] discussions with the Lenovo Group, China's biggest maker
] of personal computers, and at least one other
] unidentified prospective buyer for the unit.

!!!

IBM Reportedly Selling PC Business

] "We're hoping that people may be happy to download this
] commercial version of Solaris and basically use it at no
] charge to convince themselves that it's as cool as they
] think it is," said Mark McLain, vice president for
] software marketing at Sun.

Solaris is not cool.

More to the point, this proves just how badly Sun misunderstands
open-source and free software. Free as in freedom, not beer.
Free software isn't great because I don't have to pay money to
receive a copy of it. Its great because I'm not beholden to some company who wants to lock me into their propriatery system and then fuck me as hard as they can.

Sun stares down Red Hat with Solaris 10

] A HARDWARE from the Land of the Rising Sun, JVC, has
] signed up to the Blu-ray format and joined the Blu-ray
] Disc Association.

JVC signs up to Blu-ray

]
] EMC Corp. on Tuesday announced the acquisition of Dantz
] Development Corp., developers of the Retrospect family of
] backup and restore technology for the SMB (small to
] midsized business) market.

EMC's Dantz Buy Reveals SMB Ambitions

] The new offering is part of a multibillion-dollar bet by
] Verizon and the other Bell companies. They are gambling
] that by going door to door to replace century-old copper
] wire technology with high-speed fiber optic lines, they
] can hang onto their most valuable asset: a direct line
] into the home of each customer.

Phone Line Alchemy: Copper Into Fiber

] "What's happened now is that the world is down to three
] operating systems," McNealy said, during his keynote.
] "That is Windows, Red Hat and Solaris."

More hysterics from McNealy.

McNealy: Microsoft needs Sun to beat IBM and Red Hat

]
]
] Sony Corp.'s Japanese music unit says it will no longer
] sell CDs with built-in copy protection, a technology it
] had been pushing for two years.

Is this the one that could be defeated with a magic marker or the one that could be defeated by disabling autorun?

Sony Nixes Copy-Protected CDs in Japan