• Sun promises to make Java open source. It will be the loss leader for a lovely set of Sun steak knives. [VNUnet]
• Blue Security dies. USA Today publishes graph showing the Blue Frog mascot being slowly cooked. [Washington Post]
• "I wouldn't take that so literally." — Yahoo CFO Susan Decker, about projected revenue of $4.6 billion to $4.85 billion. Apparently those numbers were metaphorical. [CNN Money]
• Napster almost made money this quarter. Who'd have thought that an RIAA-approved walled garden piggybacking off the brand recognition of a stick-it-to-the-man filesharing network wouldn't be a cash cow? [CNET]
• Oh, looks like the Internet is just for child porn. At least on Orkut. [Bloomberg]

This week, Blue Security fought off a DDOS attack by pointing bluesecurity.com not to its main site, but to its Typepad-hosted blog at bluesecurity.blogs.com, according to Q Daily News. As a result, Typepad and LiveJournal (both owned and hosted by Six Apart) went down for four hours, according to QDN. Six Apart has graciously called all this a "sophisticated denial-of-service attack" and not "Blue Security fucking up again."

But maybe Six Apart has nothing to gloss over. Some commenters at QDN contend that the attack looked more like a direct DDOS on Six Apart's servers, which happened to coincide with an attack on Blue Security.

The lesson learned: Forget ethical reason, spammer hatred alone makes business with Blue Security too risky to bother with.

The dishonor of Blue Security [QDN via Business 2.0]