] TAINAN, Taiwan, Saturday, March 20 — The president and vice
] president of Taiwan were shot in this southern Taiwan city Friday
] afternoon on the eve of bitterly contested national elections, but
] neither suffered life-threatening injuries and the central
] election commission said that the vote would proceed as
] scheduled today.

Whoa...

Taiwanese Leaders Survive Shooting Incident Ahead of Vote

] "Open-source software--available widely through the
] Internet--has the potential to provide our nation's
] enemies or potential enemies with computing capabilities
] that are restricted by U.S. law," McBride said. "A
] computer expert in North Korea who has a number of
] personal computers can download the latest version of
] Linux...and in short order build a virtual
] supercomputer."

New angle from SCO -- go after government Linux users. Though it seems doubtful that it will help push SCOX back up ... closed at $8.71 today after hitting a low of $8.43 earlier in the trading session.

U: According to Groklaw, this is old news ... this was one
of the letters sent back in December. There are a number of other
interesting details as well -- check Groklaw.

SCO targets federal supercomputer users - News - ZDNet

] WASHINGTON (Reuters) - America Online, America's largest
] Internet provider, says it has seen a
] dramatic decline in the amount of spam e-mail entering
] its network over the past month.

If this is true, why so? Are spammers avoiding aol.com addresses
since AOL started suing spammers?

swisspolitics.org | AOL sees sharp decline in spam e-mail

]
] In an RFC prepared by Donald E. Eastlake 3rd and Declan
] McCullagh, an analysis is offered for proposals to
] mandate the use of a special top level name or an IP
] address bit to flag "adult" or "unsafe" material or the
] like. This document explains why these ideas are ill
] considered from legal, philosophical, and technical
] points of view.

Adult-Related TLDs Considered Dangerous

] "'The lesson of the Web is that standardization is
] better than differentiation,' Mulholland claims. 'Is
] there a virtue in doing things differently? Is there a
] virtue in doing things the same way as everybody else?'
] As the past decade has shown, standardization with a
] proprietary flavor

GROKLAW

]
] The new CEO of on-demand app-renter Coremetrics says
] fewer companies want to buy big-fee, complex software.

This is a quickie but goes along with the Groklaw post I memed earlier today.

InformationWeek : CRM : PeopleSoft's Ex-CRM Leader Surveys New Licensing World : March 15, 2004

] Vanu, Inc. licenses software radio applications and
] provides design consulting services to wireless OEMs,
] system integrators and service providers. Vanu Software
] Radio solutions meet the needs of our customers --
] including cellular infrastructure OEMs and service
] providers, public safety agencies, network operators and
] development labs, and the military -- in ways that
] traditional hardware radios cannot.

Named after its founder, Vanu Bose (the son of the "stereo" Bose).

Vanu, Inc. -- Software Defined Radio

] His argument, boiled down to its essence is: Microsoft
] and/or its proxies will sue over and over and over until
] FOSS cries uncle, and all the largest open source
] software companies go out of business or are forced to
] cross license with Microsoft and their gang. That is what
] they want. The weapon of choice will be patents. Grab as
] close as possible to standards, patent, and then crush
] the opposition by licensing until the other side runs out
] of patents, leaving them vulnerable, at which point
] businesses, they hope, will say, I don't like being
] vulnerable. I'll use Windows instead.

This is an especially good piece despite perhaps excessive optimism.

Anderer's 'Old Think' Tries to Justify A Dying Business Model

inignoct wrote:
] ] The Prestige 2000W VoIP Wi-Fi phone, compatible with IEEE
] ] 802.11b wireless standard, is a perfect solution for
] ] Voice over IP applications. It allows users to make or
] ] receive phone calls as long as they are in the coverage
] ] of IEEE 802.11b or 11g wireless Access Points. By using
] ] the Prestige 2000W, users no longer have to pay expensive
] ] communication fees and can enjoy the convenience of
] ] wireless mobility.
]
] [ Some pretty non-wack techmology, imho. Neat stuff. -k]

Dammit... I want one that does VoIP and is a cell phone.
Granted, it will be many more years before I can roam between the
AP in my apartment and Sprint but I'd still like to be able to
use the same device on both networks.

RE: ZyXEL Prestige 2000W - VoIP Wi-Fi Phone

] European Union officials are proposing to spend more than
] £30m to try to make the internet safer for children.

Uh oh.

BBC NEWS | Technology | EU plans safer net for children