Microsoft has a witty response to the free beer/free speech slogan.

The OSCON panel discussion on the SCO vs IBM lawsuit covers the realities of the suit and how the Linux community has little to worry about SCO's FUD attack.

Tim O'Reilly's keynote speech examines the history of commodity hardware and draws parallels with current happenings in the open source community. In his speech Tim calls on the community to built customizable commodity software that will enable a wide range of service based business models.

As Clay Shirky pointed out in his ZapMail essay, business models for wirless networking are elusive. Now we're seeing the first signs of this as the big companies start rolling out larger wireless networks.

With these final thoughts about the attendees and side topics I'll wrap up my coverage of this years Emerging Tech conference.

Clay Shirky destills the vast quanities of useful knowledge from social software, group dynamics and human interaction into a packed keynote speech at ETech.

Rendezvous and Hydra -- a powerful combination for taking notes at ETech, and the ironies of using social software during a presentation on social software.

Cory's comments on Digital Restrictions Management in this morning's panel discussion puts DRM's social effects into perspective.

The first ETech tutorial Laws and Emerging Technology put a number of current legal issues on the table for Emergent Tech geeks to consider. Fred von Lohman and Rajiv Patel help sort out the pertinent issues.

An increasing number of open source projects are creating non-profit foundations with 501(c)3 tax-exempt status, which are a perfect legal/business arrangement for open source projects.