Bright and Early
Bright and Early
Got up at dawn (literally), took a shower, got some work done. I have an appointment with my hairstylist in a little bit and will be heading out to lunch later on.
Major spin control attempt stemming from yesterday's article. "Maya is far from dead on the Mac. The launch of the application is evidence of the commitment Mac users have for the product." Pardon my French, but doesn't that spell BS?
My feelings exactly, except that "There are bulkier, cheaper alternatives that hold nearly as much music, and work with Windows machines besides." is not quite accurate. As mentioned before, there is at least one unit which holds a lot more music and is right about the same size.
How Microsoft invented open source, by Billg
"the reason that you see open source there at all is because we came in and said there should be a platform that's identical with millions and millions of machines, and the bios of that should be open to everybody to use, and all the extensibility should be there."
Every great leader (or not so great…) rewrites history to his/her liking.
Five years ago: Sun shines on Microsoft's Java Gallery
On November 9, 1998 A federal judge in New York approved the richest antitrust settlement in U.S. history. A leading brokerage firm was ordered to pay $1.03 billion to investors who had sued over the price rigging of Nasdaq stocks.