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		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.webword.com/moving/misdirection.html&quot;&gt;John Rhodes&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;The days of rabid profits for Microsoft through certain software sales channels are almost gone. It doesn't seem that way to us, but Microsoft knows this.&quot; &lt;i&gt;A must-read.&lt;/i&gt;"/>
		<outline text="I agree. Microsoft's new services model is the most ambitious Hail Mary ever in the software business. It won't work because the users have had a taste of Napster, and they remember how cool it was. Or maybe the users won't care. But get this -- my issue was and still is Smart Tags. I don't care if MS wants to own everything else. Either the users and govt will let them do that or not. I want to keep writing and making tools for others write for the Web. That's my business, and in order for that to work we need the Web to remain a high-integrity publishing environment. That's my issue."/>
		<outline text="Further, we will support HailStorm and Passport, if it's possible for us to do so. But we will also support whatever AOL does, or Sun, IBM, and most importantly an XML-based storage and membership system defined by independent developers that's open and clonable and decentralized. If it's not possible to do this and co-exist with Microsoft, well, we'll cross that bridge when we get there! &quot;;-&gt;&quot;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/partyDownWithScobleAndFriends.jpg&quot; title=&quot;Hello my name is Robert Scoble. I use Microsoft products. I also have a big mouth and an active mind. You can't read my writing on the Web anymore. Why?&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.scripting.com/images/scobleSnippet.gif&quot; height=&quot;33&quot; width=&quot;32&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; hspace=&quot;10&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Hey what happened to &lt;a href=&quot;http://scobleizer.manilasites.com/&quot;&gt;Scoble&lt;/a&gt;? He pieced together the tea-leaves on Microsoft's interest in open source. And he got the &lt;a href=&quot;http://scobleizer.manilasites.com/2001/06/24&quot;&gt;story&lt;/a&gt; right, even down to the O'Reilly &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2001/06/27/dotnet.html&quot;&gt;connection&lt;/a&gt;, and I guess this embarassed Microsoft. Now there hasn't been an update to his weblog since &lt;i&gt;Tuesday.&lt;/i&gt; I asked Scoble what happened. &quot;I can't talk about it, Dave.&quot; "/>
		<outline text="I had comments here about Microsoft's role in Scoble's disappearance, but I decided to let people investigate and make up their own minds, rather than tell them what I think happened. I have the same tea-leaves to read that everyone else does. "/>
		<outline text="Dori Smith: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dori.com/budgetwebstudio.html&quot;&gt;Macintosh Web Software on a Budget&lt;/a&gt;."/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/29/technology/29REME.html&quot;&gt;NY Times&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;..the court could order Microsoft to license the entire Windows operating system code to several companies, each of which would have full rights to produce its own version of the software, much as I.B.M. did with its personal computer hardware platform in the 1980's.&quot; &lt;i&gt;This is incorrect. IBM did not license its hardware platform in the 80s. They were cloned.&lt;/i&gt;"/>
		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://blackholebrain.editthispage.com/2001/06/30&quot;&gt;Mike Donnelan&lt;/a&gt; is searching for the &lt;b&gt;real&lt;/b&gt; monopolist. Geesh just think about it -- they're still at large! &quot;;-&gt;&quot;"/>
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		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://peterme.com/archives/00000019.html&quot;&gt;Peterme&lt;/a&gt; continues the KnowNow bash-o-rama. It's funny he's right. KnowNow used to know what they don't seem to now know. "/>
		<outline text="Did you notice that Salon's &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/06/28/appeals_reaction/index.html&quot;&gt;roundup&lt;/a&gt; on the Appeals Court decision didn't include the point of view of a single practicing software developer? We got a lot of respect from the court, they wrote at length about independent software vendors, but this hasn't caught up with the press that covers our industry yet. (For perspective, imagine an important decision about medicine that didn't include the point of view of a doctor or a user of health care.)"/>
		<outline text="Another example. A NY Times &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/01/weekinreview/01SCHW.html&quot;&gt;think piece&lt;/a&gt; about software and monopolies and network effects in the Internet economy, and they only talk to lawyers and economics professors. No technologists. Welcome to the invisible profession. "/>
		<outline text="It's Saturday so just for fun here's a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.userland.com/surveys/run/dave@userland.com/howHighIsTheSky001&quot;&gt;meta-survey&lt;/a&gt;, a survey about a survey!"/>
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