21 November – Three Stories You Need to Read

BBC News published an interesting article today on new US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s intention to review financial market rules. According to the BBC, Paulson wants to achieve a regulatory balance that is “agile” and “responsive to changes in today’s marketplace”.  Paulson also aims to make changes to the way Sarbanes Oxley is enforced.

In eWeek, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols observes that while Novell’s deal with Microsoft “may not sit well with open-source idealists, […] it is not a betrayal of Linux”.  What matters, he says, is that Linux and open-source software have become part of the business world–it’s no longer “good, little Linux versus the big, bad corporations.” 

Finally, CNET reports that according to a court filing issued by federal and state prosecutors today, Microsoft’s soon-to-be-released Windows Vista operating system does not appear to raise antitrust concerns.