Todd Gitlin savages Henry Kissinger, Henry Kissinger’s book, and the other people who reviewed Henry Kissinger’s book today at Salon. It does truly amaze me that people are so willing to give Kissinger a free pass for his horrific crimes against humanity in the United States’ dirty war against communism around the world. It doesn’t take more than a cursory examination of Kissinger’s record to discover that he makes Slobodan Milosevic, the war criminal du jour, look like a rank amateur.
Over at Slate, David Plotz asks who’s really President?
Ximian has announced a new project to port .NET to Linux called Mono. It’s being discussed over at Advogato.
Robert X. Cringely supposes that Microsoft might purchase a country like Belize if settlement negotiations with the government don’t go their way. Umm, OK.
I don’t know whether you’ve noticed or not, but Windows has gotten expensive. I always thought of it as being pretty cheap, but $200 for the full version of Windows XP is no bargain. Like all News.com stories, this one features a moronic quote from an analyst. The idiot du jour is Peter O’Kelly of the Patricia Seybold Group, who says that Windows XP will be cheaper than Windows Me in the sense that PCs are getting cheaper due to the reduction in cost of components other than the operating system.
101 ways to save the Palm platform. (OK, that’s not really the title of the article, and indeed, it’s a much more well thought out article than the pithy list of ways to save Apple compiled by Wired, but I couldn’t resist the joke.) Marc Hedlund takes a look at the current Palm landscape and proposes some steps that Palm and its partners/competitors could take to save the platform. All of his ideas are very good.
Miguel de Icaza explains his interest in .NET. His approach is very pragmatic.