Security: Ripping a page right out of open source’s playbook, hackers are practicing some of the very same techniques that have made Linux and Apache so successful. Take the growing generation of ‘bot’ software, for instance. “Bot development in particular has latched on to open-source tools and the open-source development model,” a McAfee official is quoted as saying in this article. Columnists’ corner: Lotus Notes breaks away from Windows, and ahead of schedule. “Still, even a year early, what took IBM so long?” asks Neil McAllister, who won’t go so far as to proclaim this the year of desktop Linux. “But one thing I can guarantee you: This year, Microsoft won’t be laughing. Not even a chuckle.” The news beat: TI, McAfee and others join the LiPS (Linux Phone Standards) Forum to advance the use of Linux in mobile phones. Citing customer concerns, Microsoft took the Private Folder 1.0 freebie off of its Web site. Hewlett-Packard shows off a prototype of Memory Spot, its 4 MB memory chip with wireless networking capabilities that is about the size of a rice grain. And now that Novell is shipping Suse Linux 10, IBM says it is supporting the new OS’s Xen virtualization technologies within its low-end servers and middleware. Security