Developers, rev your engines. Sun is jettisoning nine million
lines of StarOffice code into open source on Friday. It is billed as the biggest project in open source
history. From ZDNET.

IDG.com reports: The music industry isn’t exactly warming up to the Internet, especially when it involves applications that allow online file transfers. But there’s a new process which allows an artist to retain control over his or her digital music even after it’s downloaded.

ATI’s answer to NVIDIA’s GeForce2 MX is here. Can ATI’s HyperZ technology save it from the same memory bandwidth limitations that have been holding back the GeForce2 MX? The review is at Anandtech.

Intel chairman Andy Grove suggested that Napster’s success shows real user demand and a desire by the public for a new technology. He looks for peer-to-peer file sharing, similar to that done on Napster, to continue its profound effect on the media industries and across the technological board. From PCWorld.com.

The company said it will continue to operate all aspects of its Web site while it evaluates “various strategic business
alliances and alternatives.” Scour last month laid off nearly all of its staff, saying a copyright suit filed against it by major
entertainment companies had discouraged potential investors. From Business.com.

The clubby world of venture capitalists
is all about making money, not apologies. But with
an endless parade of grim news from Wall Street
amid disclosures of yet more dot-bombs, guess
who some VCs are blaming for the souring fortunes
of the Internet sector? ZDNET reports.

OSOpinion: “Overwriting a copy of Windows with the same CD — or even a copy borrowed from a friend — is something Microsoft would love dearly to collect a copyright fee for. Yet Microsoft products are so decrepit and unreliable, it is almost guaranteed that reinstallations will be necessary; if not to preserve the product, then certainly to restore its original performance by producing a clean Registry and an untangled file structure. Should Microsoft’s waiver of warranty in its shrinkwrap license or its online license allow it the right to charge you for the “right” to repair what you have paid for already? I say NO. A copy is not a copy, if it does not result in an additional copy.” –Kelly McNeill

Today the guys at Slashdot are blustering about what they call Mozilla Milestone 4,734,018 – oh, and an interview with Mitchell Baker of mozilla.org.

OSOpinion: “There’s nothing that makes me more proud to see Americans willing to stand up for justice. However there’s nothing more disheartening than pseudo-intellectual, self-righteous socialist hypocrites suggesting that vandalism and arson against the high-tech entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley is warranted to make up for the inequity of their good fortune.” –Kelly mcNeill

The US Senate voted 95-0 to ban the on-line sale of alcohol, reports Wired.