Author Archives: Dan Gillmor

Cnet: Microsoft to keep software meter running?. The Redmond, Wash.-based software company has been talking about selling software on a subscription basis for some time, but the change analysts see coming soon could force some of Microsoft’s largest customers to … Continue reading →

Dave Winer: What happens when Unix is Macintosh? So far the attention has been on the user experience of Mac OS X. But look deeper… Comments

Silicon Valley.com is hosting a discussion this week on “How the electronic rumor mill affects business and investing.” Recommended. Comments

Lawrence Lessig: Copyright Thugs. The SDMI, the RIAA and industry lawyers better get something straight: preventing piracy doesn’t mean you can punish researchers. Comments

Mercury News: National Semi to cut 1,100 jobs. The Santa Clara company, which gets about 25 percent of its revenue by selling chips to cell phone makers, said business is not improving, as it had hoped, in its current fiscal … Continue reading →

Mercury News: Office Landlords Hungry for Tenants .As the high-tech slump expands from dot-coms to telecommunications and chip companies, the scrounge for tenants has reached new levels of desperation. In the hardest-hit areas, the vacancy rate has shot from virtually … Continue reading →

AP: FCC chief wants greater authority to sanction phone companies. At a hearing earlier this year, Powell laid out this philosophy to lawmakers: “I might give you a better benefit of the doubt, but when you cheat, I’m going to … Continue reading →

Microsoft has never a monolithic enterprise. Some enormously talented and good folks work alongside the people who give the company its reputation for dishonesty and.beyond-the-pale business tactics. My question is whether Microsoft is changing for the better. When the company … Continue reading →

As noted here yesterday, I’m still soliciting your opinion about the behemoth in Redmond. Comments

Dave Winer doesn’t see how Craig Mundie’s speech last week could be called an attack on open source. I don’t see how it can be called anything else. Leave aside the Microsoft view — which Dave and a number of … Continue reading →