Doc's Call to Arson

Somewhere back when Cluetrain was forming out of primordial conversations, I told Chris Locke my Theory of Marketing, the logic of which was slyly intended to scare potentially boring clients away from my consulting business. It went like this:

Markets are Conversations; and Conversation is fire. Therefore, Marketing is arson

Chris said, "So let's test that out."

All right! I'll do my part!

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Mike Donnelan nails it. "Stop buying music."  [Scripting News]

I can play the guitar a bit, maybe I'll put up a free Mp3, just to spite the assholes.
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Sun Microsystems Sues Microsoft Over Java. Sun Microsystems said today it was suing Microsoft for more than $1 billion because of Windows XP's incompatibility with Sun's Java programming language. [New York Times: Technology]

FAQ: Sun's suit against Microsoft. What are the details of the private antitrust suit, and what is Sun seeking? The answers to these questions can help clarify the case and what will happen next. [CNET News.com]

So Sun wants Microsoft to ship Java, but not to ship Java with XP. Yeah, that should be easy enough.

Brief History of Innovative Business models:

• Add .com to the name of your company.
• Do comething with Linux, or Open Source, or Free Software, or Software libre, or whatever it's called this week.
• Sue Microsoft because you can't compete with them.

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Dude 

David Weinberger's Nephew Greg Cavanagh says "Marching is old. Why not figure out a way to shut the internet down for a day?"

[Doc Searls Weblog]

I don't think it is possible to shutdown the Internet, unless we either have the support of Verisign and each corresponding entity in each country or we are willing to commit very serious crimes in a global coordinated way (count me out!).

Perhaps we should think in terms of a campaign, like the one against the Child Pornography Act. We could all put an image (banner?) and a link explaining the nature of the protest.

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