Saturday, May 11, 2002

Enron's Sleazy, and Our Responsibility [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 1:20:13 AM

Business 2.0: Hollywood vs. High-Tech. This fight goes beyond any single device -- beyond entertainment, for that matter. Pleading self-defense, the movie studios and their allies are trying to construct an instrument of control out of the very technology they decry. Citing an unprecedented peril, they have embarked on a quest for unprecedented power... [Tomalak's Realm] 1:16:54 AM

Microsoft's Secrecy: The Allchin testimony is classic. Microsoft has either conned the Justice Department or made a deal, the terms of which we do not know, to achieve a "settlement" that does absolutely nothing to enhance competitive markets. 1:15:25 AM

MS: Remedies a Bonus for Crackers. Hackers, crackers and pirates would have a feast if the proposed sanctions against Microsoft go into effect, a company official says. Robert Zarate reports from Washington. [Wired News] Talk about ridiculous. Um, anyone noticed that Linux exposes the entire source code (so does FreeBSD and OpenBSD), and has far fewer exploits against it. You could argue that's just because Microsoft is a bigger target, but there's no way you can argue that "security through obscurity" is better than security through public review. The opposite has been proven many times over. 1:04:01 AM

States Buffaloed by Microsoft's Tactics and Judge's Indifference to Evidence [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 12:14:00 AM

Judge Denies Fair Use, Free Speech [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 12:06:34 AM

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