From this week’s NTK — extremely geeky Unix humor.

Here’s what Richard Stallman (the GNU guy) thinks the remedies in the Microsoft case should be. All three remedies are very sensible, and wouldn’t require radical changes at Microsoft.

Here’s a pointer to some resources related to 508, the law dealing with Web site accessability. The Freedom Forum story I linked to earlier seems to exaggerate the problem significantly.

Ericsson is releasing as open source software some enhancements to Apache to make it more fault-tolerant. I find this interesting because at least one other division of Ericsson mandates that only Microsoft technologies be used on Web projects.

It seems ironic to me that the greatest threat to the future viability of the Web may not be anti-smut crusaders but rather advocates for the disabled. Section 508 of the Workforce Investment Act makes it mandatory for any federal Web site, or the Web site for any company doing business with the federal government to be accessible to the disabled. The goal among advocates for the disabled is to apply this rull to all Web sites. Read this article from the Freedom Forum to get more information on this wrongheaded new government activity. The bottom line is that if the government enacts complex new regulations for Web publishing, many companies and people will simply opt not to publish, rather than going through the trouble of publishing in a compliant manner.

There’s a romance novel out there called Taming Rafe, I don’t think it’s about me though.