Wednesday, July 31, 2002


Pay up, or you're blocked: Indian ISPs tell US megasites. A Passage to India [The Register]

And what about the small sites? I by far go to Scripting News more then I go to News.com. Will eventually Dave have to pay if he wants his site to reach Indians?

(On a side note: Dave does have a "Scripting News By Mail" feature on his site.. but that kinda thing only works for (smallish) news sites)





From the "Oh, Wait, Umm.. No" Department:

No StarOffice planned for Mac OS X [MacCentral]

(But, OpenOffice, the opensource part of StarOffice, makes good progress)





I.B.M. to Buy Consulting Giant for $3.5 Billion. By Reuters. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

The consulting branch of PwC. Tell me again: What does IBM know about financial consulting?