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Actually, this article at CBS MarketWatch is better - is lists the top 5 gainers of all time. Interestingly, they're all Internet companies, although I guess that will change, given time. And Cobalt, another Linux/Hardware company is currently in the third slot after their recent IPO.

Anyway, looks like VA Linux is going to end up in the top 5 somewhere unless something goes horribly wrong in the next few hours.

...j

CBS has some lofty comments about Red Hat:
"Red Hat, the specialist in software applications using the revolutionary Linux operating system..."

Revolutionary eh?

It seems the big media is really taking a good look at our little community!

You can read the entire CBS Story Here

Earlier this year, TRUSTe received a complaint about Microsoft (MSFT: news, msgs), another member, that the software company was collecting consumers' unique personal IDs over the Internet without disclosing it to consumers. TRUSTe requested an audit of Microsoft's privacy procedures, and Microsoft refused.

TRUSTe eventually took the position that it had no authority to enforce an audit, Larsen said -- an action that shook his company's faith in self-regulation and convinced him that such voluntary initiatives were self-serving to private industry.

"(TRUSTe) took no action whatsoever to protect and reassure consumers," he said. "That was a major sign to us."
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But according to Larsen, self-regulation may become self-defeating.

"The real goal of self-regulation has been to protect the industry from regulations," he said. But by continuing to fail consumers, he added, they have "increased the probability that regulation will happen."

Read it all at: MarketWatch

some details at http://cbs. marketwatch.com/news/current/ipo_rep.htx?source=ht x/http2_mw

• A spokesman for Sun Microsystems said a problem with the tech firm's software contributed to the problem and that a service team was working with EBay to restore service.

  "We know what the probem is and we're fixing it," said Doug VanAman, director of public relations. "We're investigating it further."

  He said the glitch appears to be unique to EBay and not with any other Sun customers.

At the bottom it says "The site outage was unrelated to the Worm.Explore.Zip computer bug, which began infecting systems across the country this week." Excuse me why I die laughing...

Jon, didn't have time to do much research for your latest, did you?

1. Lucasfilm is independently owned and as such Lucas represents the triumph of the artist over the corporation (Fox)

2. Fox, a unit of News Corp. is projected to make $100 Million profit via distribution on The Phantom Menace.

2a. Fox owns the distribution of the other 3 Star Wars movies, not Lucasfilm.

3. Lucas's first Star Wars single-handedly SAVED 21st Century Fox which was completely floundering in 1977.

4. RE: Lucasfilm and marketing, Jim Ward, head of marketing at Lucasfilm"
Jim Ward, head of marketing at Lucasfilm, said the official site was partly born out of an awareness that especially after the first three "Star Wars" films were re-released in 1997, a new generation of fans was created--one that happened to be very Web-savvy. The site was always intended, however, as more than a sales pitch. "Our site was really established as a way for us to communicate with our core fans. They've sustained us all these years, and we wanted to make sure there was one place they could go to get the official information as promptly as possible," Ward said.

5. My rant:
Your age is showing. You have no idea what it was like to see the first Star Wars movie at the age of 7, at the height of the Divorce Years and Looking for Mr. Goodbar morality playing its way through the suburbs, when as a kid, you saw everything falling to shit all around you, and you went to this movie just expecting to see the same hokiness as the Sinbad movies and instead you experienced something that was less like a movie and more like a code of ethics you could live by.
A universe where people helped each other at the risk of their own life...A universe where Good and Evil was concrete and knowable...A universe where integrity, bravery, and belief mattered.

If the Phantom Menace touches 7 year olds the way Star Wars touched me when I was 7, then May the Universe Bless George Lucas!