In a bit of a surprise, a government commission didn't recommend passing new laws or adopting questionable technologies to circumvent the failure of parents to supervise their children's activities. This disappoints a proponent of such moves, who is disappointed there is no "Techno-Gizmo" that will make the problem magically go away.

Report: No Quick Fix to Fighting Pornography on the Internet. The National Research Council's report on "Youth, Pornography and the Internet" offered a surprising conclusion -- the battle to protect children from Internet pornography must be waged on many different fronts. [New York Times: Technology] 

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Gartner analyst Michael Silver believes that unattractive licensing terms pushed by Microsoft will prompt users to roll-out aternatives to the ubiquitous Office.

Gartner: Microsoft licensing could push users to StarOffice. Gartner analysts say Sun's StarOffice suite of applications has a better than even chance of snagging 10% of the office productivity suite market -- at Microsoft's expense -- by late 2004. [Computerworld] 

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