Discusses the laws of 'fair use' and how it fits in with the Napster trials. [The Register]

Novell has rebuffed SCO's claim to hold Unix copyrights and patents, claiming to hold them, and discloses SCO has been begging Novell for rights to IP that SCO claims it already has. [The Register]

Spam costs Net users a whopping E10 billion ($9.33 billion) a year, according to the European Commission. [The Register]

Story in The Register. By Kieren McCarthy.

Oracle and Red Flag Software have firmed up partnership. Oracle to certify, support 9i Database on Red Flag Linux; 9i Application Server, Collaboration Suite, E-business Suite to be available later. [The Register]

Stumbling ISP PSINet has owned up to a contract with a sender of bulk unsolicited commercial email - known to you and me as spam. It has long been a suspicion that some ISPs have had illicit contracts with spammers, despite a publicly stated policy ag...

Reporting on the lost Altair BASIC source code [The Register]

At year's end, with version 5.5, Realbasic will support Linux as a target platform, but not as a host OS. It now runs on Windows or Mac and can target either OS from the other. [The Register]

On 28 December 2001, Beijing municipal government awarded contracts for office automation, antivirus, system software, to 6 local software vendors, rejected 7th bidder: Microsoft. One winner: Linux OS vendor Red Flag. [The Register]

We see this as an appalling move by the grey suits at WB and are sure that they will leave Claire alone once they realise the disgust that most people feel towards this sort of bullying. By Kieren McCarthy. [Register]