The Register: Microsoft prepares Mike Rowe legal exit – interesting dissection of Microsoft’s legal and press tactics. Three noteworthy points: Us…Read More

I have argued here and elsewhere that Microsoft’s pathological competitiveness has created exactly the kind of competition it can’t deal with, in th…Read More

Torvalds, after telling us to come back when there are more than one or two kernel hackers complaining, said, “Basic rule of thumb: on the internet,…Read More

Newsforge: IBM on leaked memo: Nothing to see here. Move along…. I tend to believe that there is a push to move to Linux on the desktop, but hat the…Read More

For those following this space, but not the other, I just wanted to let you know taht I’ve started blogging much more intensively over at Collaborai…Read More

Stallman started GNU 20 years ago yesterday. He writes in Newsforge: The Free Software Community After 20 Years: With great but incomplete success, …Read More

Steve Gillmor: Best and Worst of Messaging & Collaboration in ‘03. RSS, Technorati, and friends take up a very large share of the best list. Read More

The Economist: The internet in a cup (subscription required). Nice story about how coffee houses used to be the place to meet for scientific or pol…Read More

Clay Shirky: The RIAA Succeeds Where the Cypherpunks Failed – as always, Shirky puts things in perspective. The comparison of the RIAA’s current app…Read More