We are BACK and this week; Kevin Hill, Arne Flones, Doc Searls, and Russ Pavlicek are bringing you a great new show.

We will cover THE HOT NEWS of the week including: Linux in Gevernment, SUN MICRO, Microsoft worries, plus a couple very clueless pundits ........ and way more.

Story Links

• Two about Linux in Government by Tom Adelstein in Linux Journal:
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  • Tom Two -
• SUN MICRO
  • Sun unveils Solaris system to fight flight to Linux -Wall Street Journal/Financial Review
  • Analysis: How Sun plans to build Solaris open source community By Chris Preimesberger - NewsForge
  • Sun simply doesn't own all the IP behind Solaris 10. -LinuxWorld
  • Sun attempts Sunshine -the Inquirer
  • Jonathan Schwartz on Java Desktop System as evidence of Sun's commmitment to the Linux Market: -He closes with this: "ps. to the writer of this, let me assure you that your last sentence is plain wrong. Please don't stoop to parroting IBM."
  • TLS is presently in a dispute with SUN over non payment of bill.
• Space Stuff
  
  • Aurora, IL on this view from space of The Aurora Borealis -
  • gallery here, some pix of which were taken during last week's show, in the Great Lakes area -
• GENERAL NEWS
  • Vintela: Microsoft's Secret Unix/Linux Weapon? By Mary Jo Foley- Microsoft Watch
  • Former Microsoft exec joins open-source project By David Becker - CNET News.com
  • S1 Embraces Linux By Steven Marlin - Information Week
  • Novell Linux Desktop ships: -Computerworld
  • Is Microsoft Taking Legal Aim at Linux? -eWeek
  • Microsoft: IP Licensing 'Inevitable' - eWeek
  • How to protect your project, company -- and yourself -- from unwarranted IP attacks - Newsforge
  • BEA claims open source milestones - IT Week
  • Open source Ingres' salvation, says founder -
  • Linux: Most Breached OS? -

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