Open source advocates hail appeals court ruling. A Federal court allows greater protection against copyright infringement for open source software, a ruling that free software proponents are applauding because it upholds the legal argument for open source licensing that the community has supported for years. Intel unwraps a new solid-state drive, which carries the same qualities as the chipmaker’s Atom processor and is designed to take up as little space and weigh as little as possible, while still extending battery life. The Connecticut man who masterminded a phishing scheme that ran for four years and raked in some $400,000 from 250 victims receives the maximum prison term of seven years. After receiving a petition signed by 219 developers asking for more information about its mobile phone platform, Google offers a two-sentence reply that is largely underwhelming. And while shipping rates soar on the wings of gas surcharges, Ted Samson has a suggestion for keeping costs down. Don’t ship. Really. Instead, use e-signatures to make accomplishing business via fax, e-mail, and digital documents as simple as it ought to be. Fight fuel surcharges with e-signatures. Software Development