Columnists’ Corner: Calling for new, more articulate spokespeople to represent the open source movement, Neil McAllister points out that bad PR and the rants and radical politics of the current corps of de facto representatives, such as Eric Raymond and Richard Stallman, are not helping open source software’s cause to eke out a place at the grown-up’s table. And McAllister dismisses the concept that ‘Microsoft is evil’ as a “college’s kid’s argument.” Open source: Dave Rosenberg writes that Linux has reached the mass market and points to a BusinessWeek special report as one piece of evidence. Meanwhile, Matt Asay breaks down what attributes successful open source projects share. The news beat: Alfresco, which boasts Documentum co-founder John Newton as its CTO, says that next month it will bring to market an open source enterprise content management system that “initially will target very simple document collaboration scenarios.” Think Microsoft’s SharePoint. The new BenQ, Siemens mobile phone company opens, with plans to launch its first products in the spring. Grid computing: IBM is now supporting versions of the Globus Toolkit for grid computing, thanks to a licensing deal with Univa. Greg Nawrocki probes into the psychology of early grid adopters.Best of the blogs: It’s a good thing that the government is now requiring that IT cybersecurity issues be incorporated into purchases, writes Victor Garza in Zero Day. And Oliver Rist continues the open source coverage this morning by looking at a couple of interesting new releases, including GnoTime 2.2, TinyERP and Open for Business. Technology Industry