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Monday, August 05, 2002
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Isn't it obvious that Microsoft should use some of their cash to reinvigorate ISVs? Imho, that would be a buy signal for MSFT, an acknowledgement that they play a different role in the software industry of 2002 than they did in 1992. It would also help NASDAQ get over the dotcom debacle. Technology needs a mega-roadmap, in other words a roadmap for future roadmaps. Clearly nothing MS is doing now, or will do in the future, can stick, because there are no credible ISVs to adopt their schemes, to triangulate on their vision. Yes, things like Hailstorm and Palladium are necessary and inevitable, but they can't come from MS. But that's all that's left. Catch-22. Gotta dig out of this Bill and Steve. A Marshall Plan for the software industry financed in part by their $38 billion hoard. [Scripting News]
Comments: Absolutely right! I am toying with the idea of going significantly short on MSFT; what comes out of Microsoft right now lacks vigor. It certainly lacks the vigor we see coming out of companies like Userland and the ISV community and information flow around Radio. Stock buy-backs are not the way to insure a company's long term success.
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10:12:33 PM 
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When brains meet computer brawn. People linking their brains together to form a global collective intelligence. Humans living well beyond 100 years. Researchers say with the proper funding, this could be our future. [CNET News.com]
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10:08:17 PM
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Berton Averre. "To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent."
Ah yes, the glory of human relationships. ;-)
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11:29:22 AM
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I was raised a jingioist, not because my Dad was a warrior-type (he served on an aircraft carrier in WWII), but because war held fascination. The technology, the guns, the sound, the battle, and the winning. The losses didn't seem nearly as real as the winning seemed glorious.
I am posting the 40 Ways to Peace, Not 40 Years of War series of messages and quotes because I believe that those who lost loved ones on Sept 11th deserve the right to call some long-held beliefs into question, to present the other side of war, and to get us all considering how to "make peace."
As a man, my instincts are aggressive. I feel that in my bones. I don't ascribe my instincts to all men, or believe for a moment that there are not aggressive women as well who gradly take up weapons to defend that which they hold dear.
While my battle-ready mind and body call out to solve terrorism through destruction, my heart yearns for another way. Doesn't yours?
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11:01:21 AM
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“I am not against loyalty to a system that shows loyalty to its members by respecting every individual’s personal freedom of choice. But blind patriotism is yet another form of religion that often enslaves the people for the benefit of the master. Do we not understand by now that blind patriotism is not always good for the health of the people--the stirring, patriotic rhetoric, the flags unfurling, the bands marching, the people charging off to war? Do we not understand by now that the message of patriotism is often an invitation for the people to serve the system rather than for the system to serve the people?”
Gerry Spence, “The Religion of Patriotism," from "Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom,” (St. Martin’s Press)
“About nine hundred people went to prison under the Espionage Act. This substantial opposition was put out of sight, while the visible national mood was represented by military bands, flag waving, the mass buying of war bonds, the majority’s acquiescence to the draft and the war. This acquiescence was achieved by shrewd public relations and by intimidation--an effort organized with all the power of the federal government and big business behind it. The magnitude of that campaign to discourage opposition says something about the spontaneous feelings of the population toward the war.”
Howard Zinn, on the years leading up to World War I, from “A People’s History of the United States.” (Perennial Press)
“Even of our pride we’re proud, we’re proud of that pride, too!”
Austin Lounge Lizards, “Stupid Texas Song,” from the CD, “Employee of the Month”
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10:55:09 AM
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