Jack Hidary, a money drunk executive from EarthWeb (a company with an ephemeral business model that managed to win in the IPO lottery anyway) is doing traditional companies the favor of explaining how important it is that they retool their businesses to work like his business at Silicon Alley 99. Infoworld has the story.
Daniel Rosen of Microsoft continued his self immolation routine in federal court today. Soon the court will hear testimony from Joachim Kempin, the thug in charge of keeping Microsoft’s OEM serfs in line.
A student at Southern Utah University was thrown out of a computer lab for viewing “objectional material” on the Internet. Ironically, the student was researching a paper on censorship of offensive words and images, when she herself was censored. Lame.
The Linux one-upsmanship game continues, as HP is making plans to go even further than IBM has with their Linux support. In the meantime, I removed Red Hat Linux from my toy server at work, and installed FreeBSD instead.