Open source: Linus Torvalds says that the Linux kernel is not likely to adopt GPL version 3, namely because of digital rights management provisions. “It’s insane to require people to make their private signing keys available,” Torvalds cites as one reason. Quoteworthy: Here’s my thesis: As IT standardizes, the corporate world becomes more like one big Lego set, more plug and play, quicker to build and disassemble. If both companies are on .NET, Java and plain vanilla SAP, or if they’re using SOA, ITIL, or hosted services, it’s a whole lot cheaper and quicker to integrate them (or untangle if need be) than it was when they were all running custom environments on legacy systems. — David Margulius, in Is standardization helping to drive corporate mergers? Wireless: If a judge imposes the potential injunction against BlackBerry sales and services, more than one-third of its customer base would shift over to a different device; that according to a survey by In-Stat. The news beat: Microsoft adds new features to Windows Live, including integration of images into Live.com RSS feeds, and a ‘gadget’ that recommends television shows. EMC unveils a disk array with more than 1 petabyte capacity, the DMX-3. And Cisco issues patches for its VPN platform, and for an authorization feature in IOS. Technology Industry