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On Microsoft and Schadenfreude

The blogosphere is all a-twitter about yesterday’s East Texas court judgment, which previously awarded $290 Million to appropriately-named Canadian patent troll i4i (well, OK, not exactly a troll) and further granted them an injunction preventing Redmond from...

MSFT vs GOOG: The New Cold War?

When I was a child growing up in the suburbs of Vancouver, we conducted regular drills to rehearse for what we believed was the inevitability of a nuclear assault at the hands of an evil Communist empire half a world away.  This was the height of the cold war, and as...

Richard Forno article on “high tech heroin”

Begin forwarded message: > Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:01:30 -0400 > Subject: Article: High-Tech Heroin > From: Richard Forno > > High-Tech Heroin > Richard Forno > > (c) 2003 by Author. All Rights Reserved. > Permission granted to redistribute this article in its...

Open Source PBX On Linux..

Wow… put a PBX in your home! Create your own ACD tree! -Ian. ——– http://www.asteriskpbx.com/ What is Asterisk? Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It runs on Linux and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX and more....

Another Vancouver Tech Company About To Die..

Pivotal Software, a Vancouver-based CRM company that had some success in the Enterprise market, hitched their wagon to a star: Microsoft. Now, normal logic would imply that this is a business strategy worthy of praise in any case, unless of course you are dealing with...