Best of the blogs: Nope, my headline is not a typo, nor is it a borderline nasty play on words certain proprietary software providers might want to use from time to time. Rather, it’s what happens when one combines Ockham’s Razor with the Open Source Definition. A “right to fork” results. “Yet it rarely happens” Matt Asay explains. “Even if no one ever forks, it’s still a good thing … because the right to do something often serves as a useful surrogate for actually doing it.” Podcasts: Jon Udell speaks with Cricket Liu, vice president of architecture at Infoblox, who is known for his books on DNS infrastructure and, recently, efforts to identify DNS security vulnerabilities. Udell kicks the conversation off by asking whether it would make sense to equip DNS to identify humans, not machines. Tune in here. Browsers: Mozilla made Firefox 2.0 available for download a day early. “This latest version adds some handy features, but don’t expect anything earth shattering,” points out Mike Barton in this Tech Watch post. The news beat: Microsoft slides Sender ID onto its list of free specs. AMD’s CEO sees a transformation in IT that will ultimately result in customers having the influence rather than vendors. And SAS unwraps Model Manager, a lifecycle management tool. Technology Industry