Friday, November 08, 2002

A rather disturbing story here that the US is using remote-controlled airplanes to kill people in third-world countries. What ever happened to “bringing people to justice?”

eWeek (p)reviews Office 11: “Next Generation Office Shows Promise” Peter Coffee retorts with Microsoft Office 11: Ready, Aim … Fizzle?

Also in eWeek “Windows 9x is inherently insecure,” Sloan Crayton, a member of the Microsoft Office beta support team, told testers last week. Gee, I don’t remember them mentioning that when they were pushing Win9X… how long until Microsoft, selling Windows Z, admits that XP was a sham?

Folks on one of the developer lists I hang out on mention Gymnast as a free solution to generate PDF documents.

Tuesday, November 05, 2002

Saturday, November 02, 2002

Dan Gillmour: “Microsoft: Freedom to Dominate”

Scott Rosenberg: “Money talks, Microsoft Walks”

Dave Winer: “There’s no justice in today’s decision.”

Boston Globe: “In Silicon Valley, resignation and skepticism”

Charles Cooper: “Machiavelli wrote that a prince may never lack legitimate reasons to break his promises”

In an interesting “Where are they now?” piece, News.com reports “Key players of antitrust trial: Where did they go?”

From the New York Times article:
“There was a fabulous opportunity to free up innovation and choice in the PC and online world,” Mr. Bresnahan [a Stanford professor who served as chief economist in the Justice Department during the Clinton administration] said. “We got about 1 percent or so of that value.”

Oh,oh. Looks like my router might be subject to a DOS attack. However, it requires remote web access, which would be a dumb thing. Here’s the article.