From the feature well: Whether proprietary software is actually evil or not is a matter of debate in certain circles. “Some even hope that open source will be the David that stops these software Goliaths in their tracks: no more vendor lock-in, no more license fees, no more closed code,” Neil McAllister reports in Open source upheaval. But could the proprietary software model really disappear in our lifetime? That’s a whopping question but new business models have already made their mark, changes are here to stay, protectionist tactics are drawing to a close and, depending on whom you ask, the rise of open source may be barely even started. Related: Ongoing coverage of LinuxWorld 2007. Best of the blogs: Continuing on that theme, Dilbert goes open source. That’s right, the cartoon character has been alerted — by his pointy-haired boss, no less — to open source software and its ostensible pricing benefits. Test Center review: RIA’s are all the rage. “And for good reason,” begins Martin Heller. That’s because they hold the potential to marry Web apps’ ease-of-access with desktops’ ease-of-use. One such example is Curl 5.0 which, in Heller’s words, “may well be the most interesting computer language that you don’t already know.” Read the full review The news beat: President Bush lets the Qualcomm ban stand but the company plans to appeal. Sun unveils Niagara 2 and deems the new processor ‘a server system on a chip’. Apple gets blasted for negligent patching of the iPhone by a security researcher at the Black Hat confab. And VMware launches Fusion, thereby sparking a race with rival Parallels and its software for running Windows on a Mac. Technology Industry