Friday, July 25, 2003

Journalism... Surreal: NYT Fabricator Hired to Write About Plagiarist. You can't make up stuff this bizarre. The New York Post reports, Esquire has "commissioned (Jayson) Blair to write about... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 5:48:45 PM    comment []

OSNews bits OS News is a favorite site of mine, for a little more meat and a little less vitriol than Slashdot... here are some top stories from today: Why Windows Isn't Hell Or Why Linux Isn't Bliss Bill Gates : 5% Of Windows Machines Crash More Than Twice A Day Richard Stallman: "Free software is neither to the right nor to the left" [OSNews] 5:03:07 PM    comment []

Wither goest Microsoft? C|NET summarizes this week's meeting between Microsoft and a series of financial analysts in a series of articles listed here. The impression I get is that Microsoft is starting to recognize that they are a large industry, and not a small, scrapy software developer, and trying to act grown up. This quote illustrates: CEO Steve Ballmer will delegate much of the software giant's day-to-day financial operations to seven executives who will serve as chief financial officers... So, the beancounters are left in charge. What ever happened to the visionary leaders? I suspect they've all cashed out. 4:45:53 PM    comment []

"I fear we have awoken the sleeping giant..." My hope is that a swift resolution of this matter can elp restore balance to the industry... "Linux wars: Big Blue strikes back. IBM launches a counterstrike against SCO Group's attack on Linux users. It argues that SCO's demands for Unix license revenue are undermined by its earlier shipment of an open-source Linux product. On CNET News.com" 4:45:37 PM    comment []

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