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Oracle customers are intrigued by recent musings by Larry Ellison, the company's chief executive officer, suggesting Oracle might offer its own Linux distribution. Users would welcome the tighter integration a complete Oracle software stack of operating system, database, middleware and applications could provide.

A road map aimed at guiding governments and companies in the development of open information and communication technologies was presented Friday at a World Bank meeting in New York by a group comprised of academics, government officials and industry representatives. The Open ePolicy Group contends that the adoption of open standards is vital to global economic growth and innovation.

More than a year after IBM's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Sam Palmisano challenged his company to move to the Linux desktop by the end of 2005, IBM has significantly toned down its rhetoric on the subject of open-source clients.

In the last 10 days of August, the Motion Picture Association of America Inc. (MPAA) began sending cease-and-desist orders to people who post or link to the De-Content Scrambling System (DeCSS) program from their Web sites.

Round one of the fight over DeCSS is over, but the matter is far from settled. The defendants are warming up for an appeal that may decide the issues of whether computer code can be considered free speech and whether outlawing reverse engineering on the Web should be possible.

As the defense prepares to rest its case in the DeCSS trial, LinuxWorld analyses the trial thus far, the surrounding issues, and the likely cause of the ongoing legal wrangling.