Gripe Line: Not every month has 30 days in the Gregorian calendar. You know that. I do, too, for the record. But that doesn’t mean eMusic does, as one reader discovered. “eMusic has a 30-day billing cycle, not monthly. Because of it, I thought I had cancelled at the end of the month, but in fact rolled into the next so was on the hook for another fee.” That, of course, was just the beginning of the end. “Have you run afoul of a nasty term in a vendor’s sneakwrap?” Ed Foster asks. If so, tell us about it here. Columnist’s corner: The battle between Microsoft and open source trudges on with scare tactics and intimidation serving as the primary weapons. “The problem is, when you bring fear and uncertainty to bear on the open source market, you also stifle creativity and innovation,” Neil McAllister writes in Mr. Gates, tear down these walls. “The ongoing conflict, like the Cold War, is a wasteful exercise that diverts untold resources away from worthwhile goals, such as fighting disease, bridging the digital divide, and improving quality of life.” Related: Novell steering Microsoft defectors back to Microsoft? The news beat: Iona adds a repository for SOAs, dubbed the Artix Registry/Repository 1.0. The SANS Institute details four exams that test programmers’ security sense and training. And Symbian builds support for Wi-Fi roaming, location-based services, database applications and more into its OS v9.5 for mobile phones. Best of the blogs: We’ve folded the print edition of InfoWorld to hone our focus on online and events. Editor-in-chief Steve Fox explains why we did it in this post. “Frankly, the editorial staff foresaw the demise of print from a long way off and began making preparations for that inevitable day. Now that it is here, InfoWorld is well positioned to serve our readers,” Fox writes. “I expect other trade publications will be following InfoWorld’s lead soon enough.” Software Development