Sometimes I really hate golf. I mean, just hate it. Ruins a perfectly good three-day weekend. * The Penguin People fire back at Microsoft. In response to Microsoft hinting that it will be looking at patent litigation against Linux users soon (and Novell suddenly clamming up on the subject), BusinessWeek just pubbed an op-ed piece by Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin firing back at Microsoft. Zemlin Sometimes I really hate golf. I mean, just hate it. Ruins a perfectly good three-day weekend. * The Penguin People fire back at Microsoft. In response to Microsoft hinting that it will be looking at patent litigation against Linux users soon (and Novell suddenly clamming up on the subject), BusinessWeek just pubbed an op-ed piece by Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin firing back at Microsoft. Zemlin reminds Redmond that Linux isn’t with out huge patent pile of its own–and an enthusiastic community to stand behind it. We could wind up watching a real nerd war this year. Just make sure your SMB apps don’t get caught in the middle. (Source: BusinessWeek)* NY thinks Google-DoubleClick merger is hinky. Sure it’s worth $3.1 billion, but before he clears it, Spitzer wants Google to come clean on exactly how it runs the usage-tracking part of its advert business. Now that’s going to make the Googlers cranky. (Source: ZDNet) * Avaya on the block? According to the NYT, Avaya has engaged Credit Suisse to manage the sale of part or all of the company. Possible buyers would be both Cisco and Nortel–which could really bite for customers of its SMB product lines. (Source: CNet)* Toshiba snuggles up to AMD. Toshiba announced it was entering into a purchasing agreement with AMD for mobile CPUs. Looks like one or more lines of Toshiba notebooks will be running these CPUs, which means we might be looking at a new line of value machines for the SMB set…? (Source: PC Mag) Technology Industry