After an open letter from ICANN issuing an ultimatum to VeriSign, later supported by the IAB, the company voluntarily shut down the service on October 4, 2003.

In 2003 Libya began to make policy changes with the open intention of pursuing a Western-Libyan détente.

In 2003, VAZ presented the concept car Lada Revolution, an open single seater sports car powered by a 1. 6 L engine producing.

One of her recordings — a cover of Cher's " Bang Bang ( My Baby Shot Me Down )" — was used to open the 2003 Quentin Tarantino film Kill Bill: Vol.

Peter Stanford, a Catholic journalist and writer, wrote, regarding Fatal Silence: the pope, the resistance and the German occupation of Rome ( written by Robert Katz ; ISBN 0-297-84661-2 ; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003 ): " Vatican still refuses to open all its files from the period – which seems to me to be a conclusive admission of guilt – but Katz has winkled various papers out of God's business address on earth to add to the stash of new information he has uncovered in America in the archives of the Office of Strategic Services.

The book was rejected by publishers in Sweden prompting an open letter in 2003 defending Johnstone's book ( and her right to publish ) which was signed by, among others, Noam Chomsky, Arundhati Roy, Tariq Ali and John Pilger: " We regard Diana Johnstone ’ s Fools ’ Crusade as an outstanding work, dissenting from the mainstream view but doing so by an appeal to fact and reason, in a great tradition.

In a 2003 presentation at an open source convention, Yukihiro Matsumoto, creator of the programming language Ruby, said that one of his inspirations for developing the language was the science fiction novel Babel-17, based on the Sapir – Whorf Hypothesis.

* Secret Maryo Chronicles, a 2003 open source Mario-like game with many improvements

Continuing efforts to make the laboratory more efficient led the Department of Energy to open its contract with the University of California to bids from other vendors in 2003.

* Secrets of the Viking Navigators — How the Vikings used their amazing sunstones and other techniques to cross the open oceans, Leif Karlsen, One Earth Press, 2003.

The Can Spam Act of 2003 makes it illegal to send spam through an open relay in the United States, but makes no provision regarding sending personal e-mail through them or regarding their operation, although the effectiveness of the act has been questioned.

* Celebrity gardener Alan Titchmarsh judged Ambridge's entries in the National Gardens Scheme open gardens competition in May 2003.

This was confirmed by Luis Moreno Ocampo in an open letter publishing his conclusions about allegations of crimes committed during the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 which might fall under the ICC.

Issues between Russia, Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan were settled in 2003, but Iran does not recognize these agreements, on the premise that the international law governing open water can not be applied to the Caspian Sea, which is in fact a lake ( a landlocked body of water ).

Under Anderson, Wired has produced some widely noted articles, including the April 2003 " Welcome to the Hydrogen Economy " story, the November 2003 " Open Source Everywhere " issue ( which put Linus Torvalds on the cover and articulated the idea that the open source method was taking off outside of software, including encyclopedias as evidenced by Wikipedia ), the February 2004 " Kiss Your Cubicle Goodbye " issue ( which presented the outsourcing issue from both American and Indian perspectives ), and an October 2004 article by Chris Anderson, which coined the popular term " Long Tail.

In 2003, Queen Silvia told a Swedish reporter that she and the royal family would like to be more open to contact with magazines and newspapers but that false articles about the family's lives – including photograph montages purported to show the Crown Princess and Princess Madeleine with their " secret " babies, published in the German magazine " Frau mit Herz " – had made them wary.

Luis Moreno-Ocampo Chief Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court investigated allegations of War Crimes during 2003 invasion of Iraq and he published an open letter containing his findings.

In a 2003 briefing for the 4th UN Security Council open debate on children and armed conflict by Human Rights Watch they state in their introduction that:

Some larks have heavy bills ( reaching an extreme in the Thick-billed Lark ) for cracking seeds open, while others have long, down-curved bills, which are especially suitable for digging ( Kikkawa 2003 ).

* MXFLib is an open source C ++ SDK released in 2003.

On 11 July 2003, the PRC government started granting licenses to businesses to open Internet cafe chains.

During the lead-up to war in March 2003, United Nations weapons inspector Hans Blix had found no stockpiles of WMD and had made significant progress toward resolving open issues of disarmament noting " proactive " but not always the " immediate " Iraqi cooperation as called for by UN Security Council Resolution 1441.

In November 2003, Johansen released QTFairUse, an open source program which dumps the raw output of a QuickTime Advanced Audio Coding ( AAC ) stream to a file, which could bypass the Digital Rights Management ( DRM ) software used to encrypt content of music from media such as those distributed by the iTunes Music Store, Apple Computer's online music store.

In 2003, the SCO Group alleged that ( among other infractions ) IBM had misappropriated licensed source code from UNIX System V Release 4 for incorporation into AIX ; SCO subsequently withdrew IBM's license to develop and distribute AIX.

The source code to the Duke Nukem 3D v1. 5 executable, which uses the Build engine, was released as free software under the GPL on April 1, 2003.

In 2003, Radio source SHGb02 + 14a was isolated by SETI @ home analysis, although it has largely been discounted by further study.

( Main source: Croft 2003 )

On August 11, 2003, Chris Allegretta officially handed the source code maintenance for nano to David Lawrence Ramsey.

In a 2003 court case in the United States, it was ruled that source code should be considered a constitutionally protected form of free speech.

* 2003: Dr. Songtao Shi of NIH discovers new source of adult stem cells in children's primary teeth.

However, there is a source of potential conflict when this is not the case, shown by the situation in 2003 when top Communist leader Hu Jintao was elected President without being elected the CMC Chair.

In late 2003, Japan suspended imports of American beef due to a BSE incident in Washington State, cutting off Yoshinoya's main source of short plate ( fatty beef ) that is the main component of its beef bowl.

In an April 2004 interview, Hoon said that more could have been done to help David Kelly, who committed suicide on 17 July 2003 after being named as the source of Andrew Gilligan's disputed Today programme contribution.

In August 2003, Novell acquired Ximian, a developer of open source Linux applications ( Evolution, Red Carpet and Mono ).

) provides a more efficient algorithm to provide solutions to the same problem as the Phillips and Gregg ( 2003 ) IsoSource model and software for source partitioning using stable isotopes.

In the autumn of 2003, the Moholy-Nagy Foundation, Inc. was established as a source of information about Moholy-Nagy's life and works.

In May 2003, Adam Shapiro from ISM stated that Sukiya was not named a " senior Islamic Jihad terrorist " by any official Israeli military or government source, and was being held in administrative detention in Israel without any charge.

Exactly how much influence they have in the resistance, especially following Saddam Hussein's capture on December 13, 2003, is a source of controversy.

During the development cycle leading up to the 0. 5. 0 release on August 2, 2003, game manufacturer Revolution Software not only helped ScummVM developers add support for their adventure Beneath a Steel Sky by supplying them with the original source code, but also decided to release both the CD and the floppy version of the game as freeware, available for download on the ScummVM website.

In his deposition, Woodward also said that he had conversations with Scooter Libby after the June 2003 conversation with his confidential Administration source, and testified that it is possible that he might have asked Libby further questions about Joe Wilson ’ s wife before her employment at the CIA and her identity were publicly known.

In 2003, the Watcom C / C ++ and Fortran compilers were released as an open source project under a new name, Open Watcom.