Monthly Archives: March 2000

The Nation’s Capital

Call me old-fashioned, but I still get goosebumps when I look down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the Capitol dome. For all the sleaze and bad faith that sometimes seems to ooze from Congress, this is still the heart of the best … Continue reading

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Exponential Growth is Faster Than You Think

Computing power — the mixture of faster processors, denser storage and higher bandwidth — will expand by a factor of about 100,000 in the next decade, some say. I say, “Yikes.” More in my Sunday column. Patent Nonsense Discussed in … Continue reading

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A Sign of the Linux Times

The “Zones” people, who run the popular PC Zone and Mac Zone catalogs and online stores, have just opened a Linux e-store. The offerings are, predictably, fairly meager given the nascent status of the third-party commercial Linux market. But the … Continue reading

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Google Plus Open Directory

Google, which has become the best of the Web search engines, has linked up with the Open Directory Project to create an extremely useful site called Google Web Directory. Recommended. Patents and the NASDAQ Rout What’s the connection? There is … Continue reading

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A Bandwidth Breakthrough?

It may well be. TeraBeam Networks has been in stealth mode for some time. But the company’s coming-out party today here at the annual PC Forum conference suggested that the company will soon be in the public eye. TeraBeam, based … Continue reading

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Richard Stallman on the Bezos Open Letter

Richard Stallman, president of the Free Software Foundation, has this comment on the open letter from Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon.com, in which Bezos calls for reform of the deeply flawed U.S. patent system. PC Forum I’m … Continue reading

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Response from the Patent Office

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued this brief comment on Jeff Bezos’ open letter on improving the patent system: We believe the existing patent law works very well for all technologies. At the same time, we welcome Mr. Bezos … Continue reading

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The Patent Mess: Jeff Bezos Responds

There’s major progress to report this morning on the patent front. Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon.com, is posting an open letter on his company’s Web site, responding to the widespread outrage in the Internet community about Amazon’s … Continue reading

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