The new ones will use Gallium Nitride
I've seen a 4W Gallium Nitride LED lamp (on someone's kitchen ceiling, next to 11W CFL equivalents) and it's very effective. In that case it's an advantage that the LED is directional - the original incandescents for which they substitute would have been reflector bulbs. The light is yellower and more like an incandescent than the CFLs next to it.

As for energy cost of manufacturing, the original article claims to have factored that in to the total lifetime cost.

Particularly strange, because I'm sure it used to do that in earlier versions.

Possibly this: Either way the company will run into the ground and the judge knows that. If the judge ordered Chap. 7 Darl would spend the rest of his life telling everyone how he was cheated out of his litigation fortune and chance to save the company, and it would all be the judge's fault. By letting them carry on, the case will be lost or more likely SCO will run out of money (surely a matter of weeks now). Same result, but this way he can't complain that the court didn't let SCO give it their best shot.

As per original article, it's been getting much worse recently. On my own email, which is now pretty well spam filtered (and I kill a lot of spam because my email address has been all over the net for about 12 years) I've been getting dozens of backscatter messages a day in the last two weeks, when I used to get maybe one a month. Others (though not everybody) are seeing the same. That's newsworthy. It's helped that I found out how to get spamassassin to mark mailbounces correctly, but it doesn't spot them all and I may have to make some custom rules for some of the less usual mail agents that have different bounce message detection signatures.