Best of the blogs: The attribution debate. Dave Rosenberg is tired of it. “End-users aren’t in the business of redistributing software, so they needn’t fret about the restrictions (or benefits) of the GPL. But again, that’s rationality talking. The legal staffs of many enterprises aren’t rational when it comes to open source. But that will change as the world continues its unstoppable move to open source,” he espouses. Columnist’s corner: Everyone knows that sex sells, but the lesser-known truth is that the practice also applies to IT. As David Margulius points out, in fact, “there’s no limit to how sexy you can make technology sound, if you put some creativity into it.” The bigger point is that “although much of IT is really cool — and we know that — you’ve got to sex it up a bit to appeal to a wider audience.” Even in IT, sex sells. Podcasts: Is storage management past its prime? That question is the foundation of the latest Storage Sprawl. It’s not an easy one to answer, but one things that’s clear is IT needs a way to remedy the complexity. The news beat: California’s Attorney General offers to drop the felony charges against former Hewlett-Packard chairman Patricia Dunn and three others in exchange for a guilty plea to one misdemeanor charge. At least from a stock perspective, IT is off to a rocky start this year, with myriad companies’ share prices and markets on the decline. And Silicon Valley company Opti is suing Apple over patented technology in Macs. Technology Industry