That’s the title of Slasdot’s message about this. It’s about this NY Times article: “Google, the highflying Silicon Valley Web search company, recently began holding meetings with bankers in preparation for its highly anticipated initial public offering as it was still engaged in meetings of another kind: exploring a partnership or even a merger with Microsoft.”
Thanks Jeffrey Gelens for the link 
LinuxWord: “But the general thrust of its argument appears to be that under the GPL, mere human beings - American citizens - arrogate to themselves the right to give permission to copy, modify, or redistribute intellectual property, while that kind of regulation of copyright, according to SCO’s contention, can and must only be done - per Article 1 Section 8 of the US copyright law - by Congress itself.”
This could have some “interesting” consequences…
PHP.Net: “PHP 5.0.0 Beta 2 has been released. This is the first feature complete version of PHP 5, and we recommend for PHP users to try it. PHP 5 is still not ready for production use!”
Changes can be found here and language changes (of Zend engine 2.0) can be found here.
Parrot is virtual machine for dynamically typed languages such as Perl (version 6 will use Parrot for its execution). Two people have investigated, or rather are still investigating, if it’s possible to compile PHP code to Parrot bytecode. The Parrot runtime enviroment has some nice features such as JIT. Slides of the keynote they held about this on the PHPCon, can be found here.
Ok, last one for today, I promise. MSDN TV: Lap Around Longhorn: “Chris Anderson and Don Box provide a code-centric high level walk through of the main pillars of Longhorn.” (Length: 52:39)
