What a disappointment John Ashcroft has been. I was not that surprised last fall when his DOJ negotiated the Seattlement with MS. It was widely expected that they would take the view that the MS monopoly was good overall.
Dave Winer: "Large companies don't innovate in software. To think they do is as wrong as it would be to believe that large corporations write innovative scripts, screenplays, novels, songs, plays. Government has yet to figure this out, nor has Microsoft or other big companies."
Robert Cringely writes this week that scientific research is doing just fine, just not in the traditional places.
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