]
] The SCO Group, which has sued IBM for more than $3
] billion and claims that Linux is an unauthorized
] derivative of Unix, on Thursday said it had received a
] $50 million cash boost in a private investment deal led
] by BayStar Capital, an investment fund.

Ugh...

SCO Gains $50 Million Cash Boost

Mozilla 1.5 released!

Mozilla 1.5

] On 25 May 2001, ICANN and VeriSign, Inc., entered into an
] Unsponsored Registry Agreement under which VeriSign
] operates the .com top-level domain. The agreement and its
] appendices may be viewed by following the links below.

Alright ... here it is ... I haven't had time to read it yet. The agreement was between verisign and ICANN and "overseen" by the Dept. of Commerce which apparently had some veto power in the matter.

ICANN | .com Registry Agreement

Decius wrote:
] ] VeriSign also made a mistake by informing ICANN and other
] ] standards bodies only a few days before it launched Site
] ] Finder, he added. "The number one complaint, actually,
] ] that we heard across the board was this lack of notice,"
] ] Lewis said. "We do sincerely regret any inconvenience
] ] that the service created, notwithstanding that most of
] ] the concerns that we discussed today ... were largely
] ] addressed within a matter of days, if not hours."
]
] In the last meeting Verisign made it clear that they had their
] reasons for not informing anyone about the changes and that
] future changes would also be made without notice. Of course,
] they have very little to loose by RErelease the site with
] notice, as everyone is aware of it at this point and we know
] they aren't asking permission, so they've decided to let us
] know. They get headlines that say "look, we're sorry" and
] people who aren't paying attention don't know any better.
]
] ICANN must end Verisign's contract.

I think I've brought this up before: is verisign's contract with ICANN or with some US Govt agency (Commerce?)

RE: Declan gave Verisign the headline they wanted

Cute flash.

Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer?

]
] There has been quite a lot of activity in the Red Hat
] case.
]
] SCO filed a Motion to Dismiss the action in its entirety,
] as you know, and Red Hat filed its answering brief. But
] since we last reported on this case, Red Hat initiated
] discovery. They asked SCO for documents and for answers
] to some pointed questions. IBM is forcing SCO into a
] corner in Utah, and Red Hat is forcefully and
] aggressively trying to do the same in Delaware. You'll
] see, I think, that we haven't been wasting our time
] telling the world the details of this story. The big
] picture is that Red Hat is telling SCO to prove their
] allegations with specificity. They also want all their
] source code, and I'm sure you can figure out what they
] want to do with it, when I tell you that they asked for
] the complete Linux Kernel Personality source code, among
] the other products for which they have requested source
] code.

SCO updates from GrokLaw.

GROKLAW

] Sony said this week that it would begin mass-producing
] its next-generation Cell chips, destined for the
] PlayStation 3 and other consumer electronics, by the
] latter half of 2005.

I hope Nintendo can pick up some more market share before this hits!

ZDNet UK - News - PlayStation 3 chip to arrive in 2005

] Technical measures designed to turn free online
] file-sharing services into a major source of revenue for
] the record industry have been proposed by an industry
] group representing the most popular trading service,
] Kazaa.

Hmmmm....

New Scientist

Decius wrote:
] ] One group in Poland is currently advertising "invisible
] ] bulletproof hosting" in online forums for spammers. For
] ] $1,500 per month, the group says it can protect a site
] ] from network sleuthing tools used by spam opponents, such
] ] as traceroute and whois.

And I wonder how long before these guys lose their upstreams...

RE: Wired News: Cloaking Device Made for Spammers

] TMDA is an open source software application designed to
] significantly reduce the amount of spam (Internet
] junk-mail) you receive. TMDA strives to be more
] effective, yet less time-consuming than traditional spam
] filters. TMDA can also be used as a general purpose local
] mail delivery agent to filter, sort, deliver and dispose
] of incoming mail.

Tom: have you looked at this?

Tagged Message Delivery Agent (TMDA) Homepage