Keeping at arm's length won't protect you from catching an infectious disease, according to new research which reveals airborne viruses can spread far and wide. The study seems to dispel the myth that viruses emitted from humans only travel a meter in the air.

After reading portions of the Fortune Magazine story which contains the latest sabre rattling by Microsoft in its battle against free software, we asked Linus Torvalds, father of the Linux kernel, if he had any comment on Microsoft's claims that the...