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Eat your spinnage 
| | VA's hardware business got double-whammied, once by the side effects of Linux's success and then by the macroeconomic bust. It's really sad. We had the people, we had the drive, we had a lot of good karma. We just didn't get the time. |
Silence is leaden
| | One of the worst industrial legacies is the breed of pointless security obsession that still insists on "protecting" original ideas from the very discussion that would make them valuable if their owners weren't so affraid somebody would steal their "trade secrets." |
| | That's what made Be a footnote and will probably kill KnowNow as well. It doesn't appear to have harmed Transmeta, but I don't think it helped, either. |
| | Anyway, I thought I'd point to what I wrote about Be and Transmeta for Linux Journal a couple years ago. I think it applies pretty well to KnowNow today. |
| | More to the contextual point is what David Weinberger wrote in the Cluetrain book, which Upside excerpted here. The opening line is still a killer: Somewhere along the line, we confused going to work with building a fort. |
| | If we could rewind history and release Be, Transmeta and KnowNow from their cults of secrecy, all three would be the subject of many more conversations today, I am quite sure. |
| | And nobody would have stolen their ideas, thanks to a simple paradox: The people most qualified to steal your ideas are too self-absorbed in their own. |
| | By the way, KnowNow veteran Meg points to some of the less obfuscatory stuff KnowNow does to explain itself.' |
What it isn't
What a day
| | I'm about to leave the airline lounge here in SFO for the second time in the last hour. The last time was just before my flight was delayed. When I got down the the counter, the flight had moved to another counter. The departure board, the ticket and the gate all had different information. |
| | But a lot of people were walking around stunned by Microsoft appeals court decision, which I predicted a year ago. Or having the usual arguments with folks behind the counter. Pissed travellers are no fun. |
| | Anyway, here I go again... |
Holy bat, Shit man
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