] 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

]
] NEW YORK - Judging from the holy war being waged by
] proponents of Linux PCs, it's clear that Linux is
] becoming the OS/2 of its time.

Ummmm....

Forbes.com: Why You Won't Be Getting A Linux PC

] The GNU project is about making sure that computer users
] have certain important freedoms. If you use GNU/Linux
] today, you have these freedoms on a single computer.
] Generally speaking, the internet is also a place of
] freedom, because it is built on open protocols which are
] not in any way patent-encumbered, and which are generally
] implemented in Free Software. However, this freedom is
] threatened now by a monopolistic company which wants to
] catch us all in their dotNET. Read this warning written
] in 1896.
]
] The DotGNU project is the response of the Free Software
] movement. We want to have technological leadership in the
] webservices arena while at the same time making our
] system compatible with dotNET so that businesses can
] migrate to DotGNU without much trouble. The main
] objective is to have a system that truly belongs to the
] developers, which is not in any way controlled by a
] profit-oriented monopolistic company.
]
] DotGNU could be called an "operating system for the
] internet" - it's a collection of tools that allow
] software components to interact with each other over the
] internet. The most impressive parts are currently:

DotGNU Project

]
] 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?

] Although Microsoft may continue to provide security and
] performance updates, no major new releases are planned,
] Microsoft Product Manager Jessica Sommer told CNET
] News.com. Sommer said that with the emergence of Apple's
] Safari browser, Microsoft felt customers were better
] served by using Apple's browser, noting that Microsoft
] does not have the access to the Macintosh operating
] system that it would need to compete.

Microsoft: No new versions of IE for Mac | CNET News.com

] 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?