T-Engine Forum and MontaVista Software are joining the long-dominant Japanese embedded OS, TRON, with embedded Linux, to form a standard software architecture for embedded devices benefiting from open source and Linux. Forum with comments. [Slashdot]
From Slashdot.org. "If you use GIF graphics created with certain freeware programs, your chosen program uses LZW compression to create GIFs without license to use it, you may be violating a Unisys patent."
"A judge ruled in a lawsuit about the alleged illegal transfer of the domain name 'sex.com' that URLs do not qualify as property, at least under current law." News and archived discussion. [Slashdot]