Surreal: NYT Fabricator Hired to Write About Plagiarist. You can’t make up stuff this bizarre. The New York Post reports, Esquire has “commissioned (Jayson) Blair to write about… [Dan Gillmor’s eJournal]
Archive | July 25, 2003
OSNews bits
OS News is a favorite site of mine, for a little more meat and a little less vitriol than Slashdot… here are some top stories from today:
Why Windows Isn’t Hell Or Why Linux Isn’t Bliss
Bill Gates : 5% Of Windows Machines Crash More Than Twice A Day
Richard Stallman: “Free software is neither to the right nor to the left”
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Wither goest Microsoft?
C|NET summarizes this week’s meeting between Microsoft and a series of financial analysts in a series of articles listed here. The impression I get is that Microsoft is starting to recognize that they are a large industry, and not a small, scrapy software developer, and trying to act grown up. This quote illustrates:
CEO Steve Ballmer will delegate much of the software giant’s day-to-day financial operations to seven executives who will serve as chief financial officers…
So, the beancounters are left in charge. What ever happened to the visionary leaders? I suspect they’ve all cashed out.
"I fear we have awoken the sleeping giant…"
My hope is that a swift resolution of this matter can elp restore balance to the industry… “Linux wars: Big Blue strikes back. IBM launches a counterstrike against SCO Group’s attack on Linux users. It argues that SCO’s demands for Unix license revenue are undermined by its earlier shipment of an open-source Linux product. On CNET News.com“