] After more than a year of touting Blu-ray Disc as the
] best technology to replace DVD for storing
] high-definition video, a top executive at Sony, one of
] Blu-ray's major backers, has opened the door to the
] possibility of unifying the format with its arch rival,
] HD-DVD.

Sigh...

Sony May Unite Blu-ray Disc, HD-DVD

] The Supreme Court today turned down a request by Terri
] Schiavo's parents for an emergency order to restore the
] Florida woman's feeding tube.

Who's "real" in this story at this point? Are right-to-die people pulling the husband's strings? Fundies pulling the parents'?

Supreme Court Rejects Request to Reinsert Feeding Tube

] The case involved software written in part by Drew
] Technologies, Inc., to which others contributed, in
] reliance upon the GPL. DrewTech, an engineering firm in
] Michigan, develops custom vehicle communications
] solutions for the automobile industry. DrewTech released
] the software at issue on SourceForge, under the GNU
] General Public License ("GPL").
]
] I never thought I'd find cars fascinating. But this case
] changed my mind. It's a struggle over ownership of
] software written and released under the GPL but later
] claimed as a copyrighted work by a publisher of standards
] for the automotive industry, the Society of Automotive
] Engineers. But on a deeper level, it addresses a new
] issue. With cars now being computerized, can
] manufacturers assert copyright and trade secret rights
] over software? Over standards? Before you answer, did you
] know that there is proposed legislation, the Motor
] Vehicle Owner's Right to Repair Act?

This is really good news. It is unacceptable for information required to comply with the law to be some company's proprietary intellectual property.

A GPL Win in Michigan - DrewTech v. SAE

] A self-replicating 3D printer that spawns new, improved
] versions of itself is in development at the University of
] Bath in the UK.

!!!

New Scientist Breaking News - 3D printer to churn out copies of itself

Karl Auerbach's First Law of the Internet

Karl Auerbach's First Law of the Internet

]
] Is it unreasonable to conceive of a day, perhaps a day
] not all that far distant, when only certified equipment
] can be legally plugged into the Internet?

Karl Auerbach writing on CircleID. A counterpoint to the piece Decius bogged.

Protecting the Internet: Certified Attachments and Reverse Firewalls?

] "By and large, (corporate customers) are somewhere in
] between uninterested and hostile to the wild and woolly
] world of open source," Gosling said.

What a twit. Java could have been so much more if not for Sun...

Sun still won't open Java

] NSD is an authoritative only, high performance, simple
] and open source name server. The current stable release
] is NSD 2.2.1.

I don't think I'd ever heard of this one before. It implements
dnssec and has no bind code.

nlnetlabs.nl - Name Server Daemon (NSD)

] In response to a complaint by broadband communications
] company Vonage Holdings Corp., the U.S. Federal
] Communications Commission announced on Thursday its
] ruling that "Madison River shall not block ports used for
] VOIP applications or otherwise prevent customers from
] using VOIP applications."

This is outstanding not only in that the FCC did the Right Thing but that they turned this complaint around in about a month!

FCC Says Telco Must Allow VOIP Traffic

] Open Solaris may go down in history as one the finest
] examples of business strategy ever--unless, of course,
] it's just dumb luck.

Ummmm .... I say again, "Solaris is not cool."

Open Solaris and strategic consequences