RealNetworks’ core music subscription service is migrating onto the Web on Monday, in a move that includes some of the first fruits of its recent antitrust settlement with Microsoft. The company is creating a new version of its Rhapsody digital music service that will let people search and listen to its catalog of songs from a Web page, instead of …

Facing criticism from thousands of fans, the Grateful Dead appears to have backtracked on recent moves to deter people from trading free copies of concert recordings over the Internet. After consulting with the legendary jam band, a nonprofit group that distributes the group’s music online had restored the audience recordings for downloading and streaming on Thursday. The organization, called the …

Change is in the wind for some prominent open-source software, with a reworking of the license covering Linux and a makeover for the Firefox browser. Overhauling the Linux license Rules governing use of free software programs to be revised for the first time in 15 years, beginning Wednesday.The New York Times November 30, 2005 Mozilla takes wraps off Firefox 1.5 …