THE THREAT OF REPRISALS from Microsoft lawyers has stopped Becta, the UK's technology quango for schools, from publishing the details of the three-year megadeal it agreed with Microsoft in April.

The economical and practical value of patents is questioned by gurus.

Another good reason for enterprise to only use GNU/Linux; the Coreflood trojan uses an XP SP2 admin tool that allows malware hackers to infect hundreds of thousands of corporate computers in order to steal millions of dollars.

A few more details emerge following the acquisition by Xandros.

A summary of recent developments which indicate positive growth, except for Microsoft which starts giving things away (with strings attached).

A repost of Stallman's non-copyrighted excellent piece.

New examples of possible "open source" abuse (for marketing purposes)

Linspire infighting and arguments over secrecy; lessons to be learned.