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Right after yesterday's post about Lessig's interview at O'Reilly, Chris Anderson, editor of Wired, has written a piece contradicting Lessig's belief that most creative works should not be copyrighted.

The O'Reilly Network has a fascinating Interview with Lawrence Lessig, where he explores these and other topics.

Novell is sponsoring development of a new email/calendar server called Hula. This promises to be an Exchange killer, providing standards-based calendar sharing and storage using WebCal to share calendars and free/busy information.

Hah! You gotta love this one: It Pays To Read License Agreements. PC Pitstop put a little clause in their software license agreement, saying to contact them for financial compensation for reading that far.

At Freelock Computing, several of our clients are looking for decent project management tools. We think we're going to roll our own solution, but have found a few new options.

Great background information on what I always considered to be "Windows Networking". The author of Samba writes about the Myths about Samba.

A whole series of stories about Intellectual Property. First, an interesting story in the Globe and Mail. The Globe and Mail: How copyright could be killing culture.

Two interesting stories from Mad Penguin: a good essay by Christian Einfeldt posted at: Open source is disrupting the fourth estate.
And another: Open Source: spinning straw into gold.

Here's an interesting story about things to consider when moving larger businesses to Linux. Linux.com | Windows to Linux Migration Guide.

Wired has a story about how current copyright law has made it illegal to view a PBS documentary film series from the late 1980s. Wired News: Putting Eyeballs on Copyright Law

In this chapter of the book, I wrote about Mesh Networking as being the cutting edge of wide area networks. At that writing, there were a couple of proprietary mesh networking systems in place, one consisting of wireless lamp-posts in the UK.