Commercial opportunites abound during the music-sharing service’s legal problems, but there are some pitfalls companies should watch out for, TechWeb reports.

Red Herring follows up on chip-maker Transmeta’s decision to file for an IPO last week, predicting a huge stock offering. “Having Linux creator Linus Torvalds on staff doesn’t hurt the hype factor either.”

From OSopinion: “If the Linux community is to survive, it must educate these new users in etiquette. They must be taught to appreciate the fact that much of the software they take for granted came to them for free. Just as are forefathers sacrificed for our freedom, new Linux users need to be reminded that thousands of man-hours were spent perfecting the software they are now using; they should thank Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox, Richard Stallman et al in their /etc/cron.daily prayers.”

Searching for SDRAM? The Duke of URL reviews several flavors while running Linux.

“As Compaq, Dell, HP, IBM and Sun, along with other high-tech heavyweights such as Motorola and Silicon Graphics Inc., throw their weight behind the operating system created by Finnish programmer Linus Torvalds, Linux may be in its best position yet to challenge Microsoft and its OS’ dominance.” That’s from a story on Inter@ctive Week.

From a Government Computer News story: Linux does not meet the Defense Information Infrastructure’s Common Operating Environment Kernel Platform Compliance requirements for a Posix-compliant application programming interface, Posix-compliant commands and utilities, the Motif X Window System interface, the Common Desktop Environment and Network File System sockets.

Caldera CEO Ransom Love has blamed inaccurate press reports
for the confusion for muddying the waters of Project Monterey, reports The Register.

AltaVista is to issue a statement later today confirming it
has been rolling out its unmetered service since June 30 and that it has, indeed, signed up tens of thousands of users, reports The Register.

ZDNet News reports Sun MicroSystems Inc.’s StarOffice productivity suite is gaining a small following as four OEMs agreed to preinstall the software on PCs.

CNET News reports, with the release of a new mobile phone Web browser today, manufacturing giant Nokia is betting on a modified Open Source
strategy to help it break further into the wireless software market