CNN covers the timely release of a report which documents what happened in Rwanda after we opted to ignore the signs of a coming genocide there.

Cable rates have been promote competition. As far as I’m concerned, cable prices are already a total ripoff, and I don’t think that this change removes a minimum from the price.

There was an email message to the Debian Linux distribution’s developer mailing list that discusses what I think will be the biggest issue Linux faces going forward … clueless users. The Linux community is based on a model of voluntary contribution. The more time software developers spend answering questions for clueless users, the less time they have to code. And more importantly, the more complaints they receive because their software doesn’t work the way a particular user expects it to, the less they’ll want to code. I imagine that increasing numbers of non-contributing, non self-sufficient Linux users could potentially drive the very developers who’ve given the project life to other tasks.

Fusebox is a community-driven effort to create a coding standard for applications written in Cold Fusion.

The unholy alliance between AOL, Netscape, and Sun begins to take shape. The only question is, “Where’s Oracle?”

Dave Winer has uncovered something potentially interesting … could Microsoft’s recent stock split have caused a > 4 byte glitch akin to the Y2K problem?

fatbrain.com? What was wrong with Computer Literacy Bookstore?

ESR wants to retire. Who gave him the job anyway?

According to this story from the Register, a Compaq executive says that the Web servers at companies like AltaVista and Yahoo! typically use Compaq’s Tru64 flavor of Unix. Informed readers already know that Yahoo! relies on none other than FreeBSD to run its Web servers.

The Register reports that one of the oldest open source software companies, Cygnus, is providing the development environment for Sony’s Playstation 2 console.