<snip> 47We were wondering why Florida's mailmen seem so well-adjusted. In an apparent move to depress them further, about 300 Florida residents with a history of depression open their mailboxes to find free samples of Eli Lilly's (LLY) new product, Prozac Weekly, along with a letter that enthuses, "We are very excited to be able to offer you a more convenient way to take your antidepressant medication." A class-action suit filed in July accuses Eli Lilly, Walgreens (WAG), a local hospital, and five doctors of violating the patients' right to privacy.
48-51.Net: Now we get it.
- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, at a Microsoft .Net briefing day in July "One question might be, and I'll be as direct as I can be about this, what is .Net? Unlike Windows, where you could say it's a product, it sits in one place, it's got a nice little box. In some senses, it's a very good question."
- Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, on the same topic at the same briefing "We don't have the user-centricity. Until we understand context, which is way beyond presence -- presence is the most trivial notion of context."
- Charles Fitzgerald, general manager of Microsoft's platform strategy group, in August on ZDNet News "Our biggest problem was policing the use of .Net. Things like .Net Enterprise Servers. That's a great example of where the confusion came from, because it looked like we were slapping .Net on a bunch of random products."
- Steve Ballmer, trying again, in an October interview with News.com "It's about connecting people to people, people to information, businesses to businesses, businesses to information, and so on. That is the benefit."
52No? OK, how about this: I break into your house, steal your wife's jewelry, fence it to a guy named Speed, and then give you 30 percent. Whattayathink? Alex Tan, owner of Film88.com -- a website that streams first- release movies online for $1 a film -- is sued by nine Hollywood studios for stealing copyrighted materials. Tan claims to have offered to pay the studios 30 percent of his revenue as compensation. <snip>
