] WASHINGTON, June 19 — Fueled by rising frustration with
] the growing commercial clutter in e-mail in-boxes, an
] antispam bill was voted out of committee today for the
] first time during this Congressional session.

I think this bill may actually turn out to be agreeable; some of its precursors have had 1st ammendment problems. My party line now is that abusive spam (forged headers) should be put under existing fraud statutes, etc. We'll see what happens now. Even the Direct Marketing Association is starting to come around here!

Senate Once Again Backs Stringent Penalties for Spam Senders

]
] SEATTLE, June 16 (Reuters) - SCO Group Inc. (nasdaq: SCOX
] - news - people) on Monday said it had revoked
] International Business Machines Corp.'s (nyse: SCOX -
] news - people) right to use and distribute software based
] on Unix, intensifying a legal dispute over the rights of
] companies worldwide to the popular Linux operating
] system.

If this goes to court, it will probably bankrupt SCO. Remember that the government tried to sue IBM once ... and gave up after 9 years!

Forbes.com: CORRECTED - UPDATE 3-SCO revokes IBM software license, dispute deepens

] WASHINGTON, June 16 (UPI) -- The Supreme Court of the
] United States showed unusual late-term cohesiveness
] Monday while handing down rulings in four cases. Two of
] the rulings were unanimous decisions, one was on a 7-2
] vote and one was 6-3.
]
] However, the seeming collegiality may just be the calm
] before the storm because the high court dealt with none
] of the more controversial cases awaiting decisions -- the
] University Michigan affirmative action cases, the
] challenge to the Texas sodomy law, the challenge to the
] federal requirement that public libraries install
] Internet filters against pornography.

United Press International: Analysis: Calm before Supreme Court storm

]
] The move by the SCO Group against Linux has been met with
] unexpected resistance with an unnamed member of the Linux
] kernel development team threatening to sue SCO for
] copyright violations.
]
] The developer emailed SCO in the US and Germany
] yesterday, telling the company that a version of the
] source code for the kernel, which was available from the
] SCO FTP servers, contained code which he had contributed
] to the kernel under the terms of the GNU General Public
] License.

Linux kernel developer threatens SCO with copyright suit - smh.com.au

] SCO CEO Darl McBride confirmed in an exclusive interview
] with eWEEK last week that the company intends to push
] ahead with its decision to revoke IBM's AIX license.

SCO Mobilizes for IBM Unix Battle

Nothing deep here but there hasn't been much talk about this subject thus far...

SecurityFocus HOME Infocus: Honeypots: Are They Illegal?

] One hundred days after filing its lawsuit against IBM,
] the SCO Group Inc. says it's prepared Friday to take
] action against IBM for allegedly violating its Unix
] licensing contract by allegedly feeding Unix source code
] to the Linux community. If SCO Group can enforce its case
] against IBM

Keeps getting crazier and crazier ... SCO is now threatening to revoke IBM's UNIX license for AIX today if they don't "do something" about the "infringement" of SCO's IP that they claim...

Is SCO Bluffing?

] For the last 30 days, Google has been doing strange
] things. No webmaster who follows Google closely will deny
] this. There is no explanation from Google apart from some
] vague hints from "GoogleGuy," an anonymous poster at
] webmasterworld.com, whom the forum owner says is from
] Google. These hints claim that new algorithms are being
] put into place, and that this will take a couple of
] months.

Interesting site ... these guys are big-time Google naysayers..

Is Google broken?

] WASHINGTON, June 5 — The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on
] the new campaign finance law on Sept. 8, a month before the start of
] its fall term and time enough to decide the case before the election
] season starts next year.

Hmmm ... I haven't thought too hard about the constitutional issues
with McCain-Feingold; it may turn out to be unconstitutional as things stand. If so, maybe we need an ammendment. The system definitely needs to be cleaned up.

Finance Law to Be Argued in September

]
] SCO Group (Quote, Company Info) has shut down its German
] Web site, in response to a restraining order obtained in
] that country by German Linux advocacy group LinuxTag.

SCO Shuts Down German Site