March 22, 2004

EU planning massive fine against Microsoft. European regulators plan to levy a record fine of more than $600 million against Microsoft as part of a strongly worded rebuke of the company's business practices. [CNET News.com] 10:24:53 PM

Novell Turns To Open Source To Regain Relevance Information Week - The company debuted a number of open-source initiatives at its BrainShare conference as it tries to reverse past missteps. 9:56:56 PM

With regards to the death of Hamas movement leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, I celebrate it.  Even more than I celebrated the death of Nasser.  Despite what you might hear him described as a "spiritual leader", he was in fact a cold killer of jews , and palestinians.  Would the US fire a missle at a car that it knew Osama Bin Ladin was in?  Of course they would.  Well, know this, Yassin was Israel's Bin Ladin.  he celebrated the deaths he caused directly and indirectly. Alon Pinkas, Israeli Consul General to the United States, in Washington: "It was the right thing to do, as crude as that sounds. He's no spiritual leader. You would think you are talking about Mother Teresa or something is a man that embodies terrorism. He was arrested twice, arrested by the Egyptians to begin with, arrested twice. He's masterminded the brutal killings of children, women, way up in the hundreds. He is a force of incitement, a force of hatred towards Israel, towards America, towards the West, toward the Palestinian mainstream for that matter."   11:52:32 AM