June, 27, 2001 archives

david stutz, of microsoft, says, "We are sincerely concerned about the GPL, and its impacts upon the ecology of the developer community." like how microsoft may not be able to extract money from every player in the ecology. and how microsoft may not be able to take government-funded work, extend it, leverage their monopoly, and lock everyone else out unless they fork out the cash.

i've never heard of a company getting killed as a result of competition from their own product being released as open-source. how many companies have you heard of microsoft maiming and killing?

a groundbreaking new feature on the news page. by clicking on the 'weather' header, you can set the zip code for the weather to grab. (requires cookies and javascript.)

maybe someday i'll add a way to opt out of individual news sources from the headline listings.

and okay, maybe it isn't very groundbreaking.