MSN search bot a glimpse of ambitions. As it prepares its own algorithmic search engine, MSN quietly launches software that will index Web sites, a move that raises questions about MSN's deal with Yahoo unit Inktomi. [CNET News.com]

Scripting News posted a link to an info page on the MSNbot

So MSFT goes for Google.  The MSNbot is crawling the web now, but the results are not yet being used in production.

11:47:59 PM    

SCO Berates Linus' Approach To Kernel Contributions

SCO Berates Linus' Approach To Kernel Contributions

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 18, @08:27AM
from the how's-that-dinosaur-ride dept.
Matthias_305 writes "The New York Times has an article about a new court document in which SCO critizes Linus Torvalds touting the 'inability and/or unwillingness of the Linux process manager, Linus Torvalds, to identify the intellectual property origins of contributed source code.' They claim to have got evidence from a conversation on the kernel mailing list in which Torvalds advocates programmers shouldn't care about patents. According to the article he stands by his view which is at least 'candid'." On a related note, BobDowling points to a proposal at The Inquirer ("Shutting down SCO's FUD machine") regarding SCO's claims. "SCO won't let people see the contested source code without signing an outrageous NDA but the article gives a mechanism for publishing appropriate MD5 checksums which allow code trees to be compared without anyone else seeing the code. This is offered as a means to locate the source of SCO's contested code. ... This mechanism gives a concrete procedure that SCO can be challenged to follow as part of the community's "put up or shut up" response. There would be no threat to SCO's claimed IPR."

[Slashdot]

10:33:09 PM