http://arstechnica.com/…

California, Connecticut, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia have moved (PDF) to extend their antitrust judgment against Microsoft until November 12, 2012. This decree is a modification of last month’s request to a judge that the judgment be extended by five years. The current antitrust decree is scheduled to expire in November of this year.

Firstly, they claim that there have been “continuing problems” with Microsoft’s efforts to document its server communications protocols.

Secondly, the report laments the state of OEM web browser bundling, saying that “no major OEM currently distributes a browser other than Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE).”

I’m no fan of Microsoft but it’s laughable to think people actually consider them a monopoly. Sure they own lots of stuff and a whole lot of hardware run their software… but there are dozens of alternatives both for sale in the traditional sense but also free and open source projects. It’s really amazing all this has gone on for so long.

And why aren’t these states going after MS, Sony and Nintendo for having closed platforms? Shouldn’t my 360 game be able to work on my Wii?

http://dark-alex.org/ 

Bye, scene.

I’ve decided to cease OE development, and leave PSP scene.
The reasons are various.One of them is the time it consumes, which i’m losing from other things.The other is related to my security. I didn’t like Sony menaces to PS3 hackers. I think it is better to leave now rather than end paying the consequences.

This is unfortunate. His PSP kernel hacking abilities appeared to be topnotch. I’ve used his OE firmwares for a while now and it’s sad to see him go. I was looking forward to a 3.51 OE. Perhaps someone else will carry on. Too bad most the knowledge is not easily available if at all.

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/…

The software is called WiiWare. Like the XNA Game Studio that Microsoft released in December 2006 for Xbox 360 and Windows game programming, WiiWare is aimed at amateur coders, though the company admitted it may not be for people who’ve never done any programming before.

I hope this is accurate. We at Bloodlust Software would love to get the opportunity to put something out on the Wii. I’m sure it would give us the necessary motivation which we have lacked recently :-)

http://www.freelists.org/…

I have the pleasure to announce I have ported OSSv4.1test to BeOS. It’s not finished yet, but it runs and plays some sound.

The goal is to use its drivers to get wider audio support for Haiku, the FreeSoftware rewrite (under BSD/MIT) of BeOS.

Good to see. Haiku is really coming along. Audio support is pretty important for a multimedia OS recreation. :-)

 http://lists.gnu.org/…

On Friday, June 29, at 12 noon (EDT), the Free Software Foundation will officially release the GNU GPL version 3. Please join us in celebrationas we bring to a close eighteen months of public outreach and comment, in revision of the world’s most popular free software license.

Um… yay? It’s a license. It has little affect on the actual software.

http://www.artima.com/…

Here’s a long-awaited update on where the Python 3000 project stands. We’re looking at a modest two months of schedule slip, and many exciting new features. I’ll be presenting this in person several times over the next two months.

I’d expect there will be more changes but whats listed there seems decent enough. As such a junior Python developer little of this really affects my usage.