Video: “Most of the people that talk about open source today are software people, and software people fail to realize that they are really hardware people. The border between the two doesn’t matter,” Sun’s chief researcher John Gage tells Steve Fox in this two-part discussion that ranges in topic from Sun’s 25th anniversary to the future of Solaris, hardware, Web 2.0 and SOA. Columnist’s corner: Online theft — and the ensuing coverups — may be a cost of doing business. “Corporate America has ported the credit card security model to the Internet — tolerate the fraud, and simply spread the financial costs evenly across a huge base of cardholders and merchants,” David Margulius points out in Tolerating online fraud. You see, facing online security could dampen usage. The problem? “The victims are different here. The potential harm to individuals is greater, harder to fix.”Q&A: SpikeSource’s CEO Kim Polese speaks with the IDG News Service in this interview about cooperating with other open source providers, competing with the big guns, and her company’s plans regarding a liquidity event. The news beat: Oracle nabs Hyperion for $3.3 billion and, in return, gets new BI tools. What with all the hubbub at Black Hat this week, lawmakers are working to ban hacked RFID door cards and introducing two new bills to limit their use. And the EU criticizes Microsoft’s interoperability efforts again, this time giving the company four weeks to respond or be slapped with daily fines. Technology Industry