The New Zealand Open Source Society files notice of opposition to the Microsoft
XML patent, now refused in the US. A draft is available here:
http://members.nzoss.org.nz/media/Notice_of_Opposition.pdf
Microsoft acquires Sybari and promptly stops sales of its virus
detection software for checking mail & files on Unix servers:
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2005/06/22/ms_sybari/
Version 1.4 of KOffice for the KDE environment is released, including
support for the new XML-based OASIS Open Document standard:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/KOffice_1.4_released
HP upgrades the speed of their StorageWorks Scalable File Share (HP SFS) by
distributing files simultaneously across server and storage clusters:
http://www.internetnews.com/storage/article.php/3514086
The Nintendo DS gets closer to "full" Linux support with the advent of a full
keyboard on the touchscreen:
http://www.dslinux.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=482
Nokia and Apple team up to produce an Open Source web browser for phones, as
Nokia tests the water for switching from Symbian to Linux:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/21/nokia_apple_browser_analysis/
A virus causes Japan's nuclear power plants to spring a leak, but only
confidential data and not radioactivity. So that's OK then:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8869315
In memoriam. Jack St. Clair Kilby, acknowledged inventor of the integrated
circuit, died in Dallas on Monday after a brief battle with cancer:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=164901506
And finally. For those of you who enjoy Tom Leher and his "Elements" song,
here's the version with flash animations:
http://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html
News collated from various sources by Vik Olliver for Diamond Age Solutions Ltd. The views presented in this document are the personal opinion of the collator, and should not be taken as any more than that.