Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Thursday, December 11, 2003

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SCO sends IBM 1,000,000 pieces of paper: "As part of a court order to provide IBM with evidence relating to SCO's frivolous anti-Linux lawsuit, SCO sent IBM one million sheets of paper on which were printed the source-code that SCO alleges is being infringed upon. Of course, this is just a tactic to sabotage IBM's defense, since it needs all that code in a machine-readable format." (via Dan Gillmor) [Boing Boing Blog]


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Apple's Panther: Something Wicked This Way Comes: "While the company speeds forward, it must not lose its focus on quality control or user loyalty." (E-Commerce Times via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]


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Product Of The Year: Apple iTunes Music Store: "Apple is almost single-handedly dragging the music industry, kicking and screaming, toward a better future." (Fortune via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]


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Generating Lorem Ipsum -- dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry: "[T]his [is] the first true generator on the Internet. It uses a dictionary of over 200 Latin words, combined with a handful of model sentence structures, to generate Lorem Ipsum which looks reasonable. The generated Lorem Ipsum is therefore always free from repetition, injected humour, or non-characteristic words etc."