Microsoft's MSN has launched the Gates Open Directory, otherwise known as GOD, which seeks to simplify copyright on the Web by purchasing all copyrighted material.

A brief article on northern California Linux users who plan to rally at company's office to "present a calm and polite, but firm, request for [a] refund."

Joint development agreement between Linux sellers SCO and SuSE protects SuSE from any legal action, SuSE says. [ZDNet UK]

By Richard Barry: Humankind will have to decide how to live with a new sentient race. Sometime in the future machines will reach a level of intelligence that will challenge, or even surpass our own.

SCO website and file servers are back online, after being hit by denial-of-service attack that cut off access for almost 2 days. [ZDNet UK]

SCO, now suing IBM for infringing its intellectual property, had its website taken offline by a well orchestrated denial-of-service attack. An avalanche of data blocked access to the site for several hours on Friday. [ZDNet UK]

SCO downplays published report suggesting firm may sue Linux founder Linus Torvalds for patent infringement, while Torvalds calls for restraint. CEO McBride will not fully rule out possibility of suing him. [ZDNet UK]

SCO's top network administrator says day-old denial-of-service attack on Web server has expanded to assault mail and file servers. [ZDNet UK]

Warns in regulatory filing that its $1 billion lawsuit alleging IBM misappropriated trade secrets will be costly, may alienate others in computing industry. [ZDNet UK]

Analysis: Industry observers say Microsoft agreement to license Unix intellectual property from SCO is designed to feed fear, uncertainty, doubt about Linux, and help Microsoft fight it. [ZDNet UK]