The Register: Microsoft prepares Mike Rowe legal exit – interesting dissection of Microsoft’s legal and press tactics.

Three noteworthy points:

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

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, a…

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 they’…

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 Collaboraid’…

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

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

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 p…

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