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.

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."

Delay of trial, scheduled for April, until December to give Lindows time to study documents from 1992 case of Apple Computer vs. Microsoft, that MS using windows and other elements infringed Apple Mac OS copyright. [ZDNet UK]

IBM expands geographic ambitions for Linux, signs deal to bundle DB2 Express version of its database software with Chinese Linux distributor, for small and medium businesses. [ZDNet UK]

As war continues, IBM says it has no intent to stop shipping AIX, a position dismissed by SCO. IBM dismissed as idle SCO threat to cancel IBM license to ship Unix products starting 13 June, says contracts guarantee its rights. [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]

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 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]

For 3rd time this year, unknown attackers have deluged SCO website with enough data to make it inaccessible. [ZDNet UK]