Best of the blogs: Between group hugs, diaper changing and eating a lot at a family reunion, Matt Asay trudged through the tome Creation and the Persistence of Evil. Something about it has him firing potshots at co-author Dave Rosenberg and contemplating how it somehow relates to the origination of open source. So, there’s a bit about open source’s potential to conquer evil, or at the very least order the existing intellectual property world, and a picture of Richard Stallman that worshippers might find, err, umm, I don’t know, fill in the blank here. Q&A: Ben Fathi is in charge of Microsoft’s response to hacker threats. I could just leave it at that … but, as the corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Security Technology Unit, Fathi has a role that many in the industry do not covet, let alone wish upon their enemies. In this interview Fathi discusses the notion of a trust ecosystem, complaints about Windows Vista’s security, the Forefront Client Security Microsoft released this week, and more. Columnists’ corner: Why Apple snubs its open source geeks. Well, because the company believes, or at least publicly claims, that the subset of IT people interested in recompiling the Mac OS X kernel is only a ‘fraction of a fraction’ of Tom Yager’s regular readers. “Before consummate wealth and success, Steve Jobs was the poster boy for that misunderstood fraction-of-a-fraction to which my erstwhile handlers referred,” Yager writes. Podcasts: SMB IT guru (or geek depending on your personal take) Oliver Rist talks about Windows Vista, why “upgrading your desktops might not be such as a stupid idea after all.” And what fun would any of his Emerging Enterprise podcasts be without a rant? This time he’s all worked up about stopping unsecured laptop madness. Technology Industry