Tuesday, December 09, 2003

Steve Jobs Rolling Stone interviews Steve Jobs. 5:46:18 PM    comment []

The Programmer As (Starving) Artist eWeek links to this piece on NewsForge by OSDN (think SlashDot) leader Robin "Roblimo" Miller 5:45:12 PM    comment []

Court rules for IBM in preliminary SCO hearing Good news from ComputerWorld in this piece: http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,87945,00.html?f=x10 5:42:58 PM    comment []

Microsoft dropping Windows 98, Office 2000, SQL Server 7, more It sounds like a feeble attempt to force customers into upgrading. Perhaps if Microsoft spent a few minutes to remove the offending code from the older products, or even better, worked out a deal with Sun to ship a modern version of Java, Microsoft might obtain a bit of customer loyalty. Microsoft to stop offering host of older products. "Microsoft will stop distributing several older products next week as a result of a legal settlement with Sun Microsystems in a dispute over Java, Microsoft said." [InfoWorld: Top News] 6:05:59 AM    comment []