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SCO Slaps IBM With Injunction
SCO Group announced Monday that it has filed a permanent injunction seeking to bar IBM from distributing or selling the AIX Unix operating system. It's the latest skirmish in an ongoing big-business war that ultimately could determine the future of open-source development. Independent Linux developers, who have threatened to file their own lawsuits against SCO, soon may join the fight. "Today AIX is an unauthorized derivative of the Unix System V operating system source code and its users are, as of this date, using AIX without a valid basis to do so," said SCO attorney Mark Heise.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59266,00.html

Mary Bono's Raring to Run RIAA
Rep. Mary Bono (R-Calif.), who is forming a new congressional caucus on piracy and copyright issues, also wants to run the music industry's lobbying organization in Washington, a spokeswoman said Monday. Replacing the departing chief executive of the Recording Industry Association of America would be her "ideal job," spokeswoman Cindy Hartley said. She added that Bono isn't actively pursuing the job and plans to run for re-election. Political watchdog groups in Washington questioned the idea of someone being a possible job candidate for the music industry's lobby and also a founding member of a caucus focused on some of the industry's most important policy concerns.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59274,00.html

The MP3 Economy
The going rate for downloading songs from online music services like Apple's (AAPL) iTunes Music Store, MusicNet, Pressplay, and Rhapsody is about $1 a pop. Yet the economics of recorded music sales haven't changed much since the vinyl era -- despite the fact that digital files cost very little to produce and distribute. So how much of your buck makes its way back to the artists? Not much, though it's clearly a better deal than they get from piracy.
http://www.business2.com/articles/ma...,49472,00.html

Clean air at the Internet truck stop cafe
Each night, truck drivers across the United States pull into parking lots off the Interstate to catch some sleep. They leave their engines running. They have to. It's the only way to power a truck's air conditioning or heater -- plus the refrigerator that many long- haul rigs carry -- without killing the battery. Those idling trucks burn fuel, up to 2 billion gallons each year, by one estimate. They also pump millions of tons of pollutants into the sky while their drivers sleep. A Knoxville, Tenn., company wants to switch off those engines.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...#038;type=tech

Defense Dept. backs next-generation Net
The U.S. Department of Defense said it plans to support the next-generation Internet, known as Internet Protocol version 6, in as little as five years. In a briefing Friday, John Stenbit, assistant secretary of defense for networks and information integration, said the Defense Department hopes to move to IPv6 by 2008. He said department acquisitions taking place after October of this year must be IPv6-compatible in order to help the military gear up for the transition. "What we're trying to do is get our folks in the position that whenever the decision is made on the outside to switch, we're ready," Stenbit said. "And more importantly, on our own internal systems, which we control a little bit more, we're going to then be prepared." Stenbit stressed that the military's embrace of IPv6 would be an evolutionary process.
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-1017861.html?tag=cd_mh

Sony to offer music downloads in U.K.
Sony Music said Monday that it would begin selling music downloads in Britain for its top artists, making it the last among the major recording labels to join Europe's music download bandwagon. But the long-awaited announcement comes with a hitch. Sony, home to such artists as Michael Jackson and Jennifer Lopez, will not sell song downloads to European Internet users outside the United Kingdom. "We're in negotiation with Sony for the other territories," said Charles Grimsdale, chief executive of OD2, the technology provider that brokered the deal. "Hopefully, we'll be able to bring Sony onboard across Europe fairly soon."
http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-1017346.html?tag=cd_mh;)