Friday, 30 May 2003

Microsoft to pay AOL $750 million. The two companies drop pending litigation and announce a seven-year deal under which AOL Time Warner will license Internet Explorer for free. [CNET News.com] I didn't think that Mozilla was that big a threat to Microsoft... 8:17:54 AM

Some quotes for the day. A couple of quotes to pass along. The first courtesy of Adam Curry: qotd may 28. Thomas A. Edison: "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] The second courtesy of the Dear Abby column in this morning's Chicago Tribune: "The story--from 'Rumpelstiltskin' to 'War and Peace'--is one of the basic tools invented by the human mind, for the purpose of gaining understanding. There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories." - Ursula K. LeGuin, 1979   [McGee's Musings] Stories be the basis of societal formation... 8:07:27 AM

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