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Monday, May 20, 2002 |
 eWeek. (granted, this is five days old, but excellent analysis is always worth waiting for). Allchin opts for the absolute worst defense. Patriotism is the last defense of cowards. It is even worse if Microsoft is engaged in keyword logging as part of their settlement with the DoJ. This would mean that the US could, if conditions warranted it, keyword log all the computers in a country like Pakistan. This would occur under the assumption that anyone outside the US isn't entitled the same freedoms we enjoy. They are fair game. In exchange, Microsoft would get a pass on anti-trust from the DoJ for a decade or more. This is the probable scenario.
>>>A senior Microsoft Corp. executive told a federal court last week that sharing information with competitors could damage national security and even threaten the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan. He later acknowledged that some Microsoft code was so flawed it could not be safely disclosed.<<<
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The Guardian. Big media continues its character assasination of Pim.
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Fortune. Why companies fail: The New Economy Death Spiral.
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Bloomberg. Michael Lewis. Warren Buffet on CEO pay and bad corporate behavior.
>>>The most interesting message Warren Buffett delivered to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. last week was that his outrage toward CEOs was growing fast. After pointing out that chief executive officers of public companies are the only people in our economy who effectively decide what they are going to pay themselves, Buffett went on to call the attitude of the greedier members of the species ``shameful.'' Then Buffett and Munger let slip an interesting fact: They had dumped their shares in some company after they saw what the CEO was paid. ``We felt we couldn't stomach it,'' Buffett said.<<< The top two candidates: Disney and Citigroup.
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BBC. China plans to go to the moon by 2010. Hey!
9:13:07 AM
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NYT. Microsoft's Xbox plans focus on social gaming. For many reasons this is going to be a massive $1 b flop. The PC is the device connected to the broadband connection in all US homes. Most of the PCs that are connected don't have a home network. The only way to shoehorn this into the home is to sell a home server with a built-in wi-fi hub (Homestation) and connect the Xbox to that network as a satellite device. This is putting the cart before the horse.
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