Saturday, November 2, 2002
He said, he said
Eric Norlin: More on software.
Bitter ends
I'm in agreement with John Robb in this response to the latest news on the Microsoft antitrust case.
This is a depressing situation. The SEC is AWOL, the DOJ has abdicated its responsibilities in favor of security, the courts are in confusion, our President is obsessed with war, our economy is teetering near the edge of oblivion, and our opposition parties are in disarray. This is not the end of the world, but it does mean that we are in a protracted low point for the US. We just need to wait this out. Nothing else to do. Unfortunately, that may take a decade. Hopefully less.
But I think blame needs to be placed on the original case. It was lousy. I've explained why already, so I won't bother again here. No time anyway. (Hey, it's a freaking weekend. Fun beckons.)
A new FLA
Nice to see the Jabber protocol (aka XMPP) has its own IETF working group now. Here's the Slashdot feature.
Watch for more on Peter St. Andre's blog.
Looking shot
My first gallery of pix from last week's Linux Lunacy Geek Cruise are up. Almost all were taken with my Sony PC-110 camcorder, by the way. It takes 1-megapixel stills, which are plenty big enough for the Web; and it does a pretty good job, considering.
I took several rolls of 35mm film shots, too; but those aren't even at the processor yet. I'll eventually get back the results in Kodal PictureCD as well as negs and prints. If those look good enough, we might put them up too.