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Microsoft unveiled HailStorm, part of its .Net strategy, today in India. As part of the announcement Microsoft said six companies in India have already developed applications. Microsoft’s .Net is the company’s way of at making their software available over the Web to PCs, cell phones and PDAs.

Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, has taken a shot at Microsoft after one of the company’s Senior Vice Presidents, Craig Mundie, charged that, among other things, “open source code, which is often offered under the Gnu Public License, ‘poses a threat to the intellectual property of any organization making use of it.'” Torvalds shrugged off Mudie’s comments saying, “That argument is so much crap.”

VersionTracker notes the release of Apple QuickTime Streaming Server 3.0p3, software that allows Web sites to stream QuickTime media.

The Irish Times reports that Apple will launch an advertising campaign in Dublin, Ireland. The campaign will focus predominantly on the company’s new iBook and demonstrates a renewed effort on Apple’s part to target the Irish market.

Apple has made CarbonLib 1.3.1 available via their Software Update Control Panel and their Web Site. Their isn’t much information on this release as of yet, but the notice Apple gives you prior to download is, “CarbonLib 1.3.1 delivers new functionality and features for Carbon-based applications on Mac OS 8.6, all Mac OS 9 releases, and Mac OS X.”.