Salon has an article about Be’s identity crisis. If only you could sustain a profitable business that does nothing more than write and sell an OS that is pleasing to geeks.

Apple announced the results of another nice quarter yesterday. They turned a profit of over a buck per share, which is really pretty good for a company that was supposed to be dead by now. Macintouch has a quick wrapup of the results. Next week is the big summer MacWorld show. I wonder what will be announced.

The XFree86 Font Deuglification Mini HOW-TO provides a solution to a long term problem that I’ve had with Linux.

I found this list of free XML software today. It’s pretty darn comprehensive.

Rebecca Eisenberg has an interview in the SF Examiner with Andrew Sather, the founder of Adjacency, who sold his company to Sapient for 54 million bucks. The notable thing about the sale is that Adjacency was owned 100% by its employees.

Carl Steadman’s routinely hilarious column takes on stock options in this week’s Industry Standard.

Microsoft is filing a lawsuit against somebody else for a change.

InfoWorld is managing an email-based petition against the onerous UCITA legislation that could make shrink-wrapped software licenses even more draconian than they already are.

SunWorld has a security column that covers the time honored practice of social engineering. The true secret to successfully compromising other people’s computers is knowing that it’s a lot easier to break in by calling someone and getting their password than it is to defeat their security with technology.

Dell is opening an auction site. Sometimes the “me too” behavior in this industry is more vile than I can even imagine.