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Simon Janes writes "In a two part article series, Rob Landly (aka TMF_Oak) discusses Network Effects and how they make a product more valuable to users. Rob continues his series the next day with a discussion of Microsoft vs. Linux. This is excellent 'outside of the industry' press for Linux because 'Fools' are people like nurses, teachers, accountatnts and retirees who are not normally exposed to this."

Simon Janes writes "The Red Herring is running an article this Sept on Transmeta called Stalking Transmeta. They were making up their "Herring 100" and rumors started coming out again about Transmeta so they had to investigate. They learned, nothing. :)"

Simon Janes wrote in to send us a story about John Hamre, US Deputy Secretary of Defense being quoted in wired as saying that no two companies have a "God-given right" to export American Encryption. Update The Wired Article that I was quoting changed to talk about Companies Exporting encryption instead of People Talking Privately. Thanks to the several folks who pointed out the change. It doesn't change much for me though, preventing encryption exporting is just dumb. All it does is make things a pain for us, it doesn't prevent them from having better encryption technology.

Simon Janes writes "Sun is getting into the multimedia market with a PicoJava-core chip which appears to be what this columnist thinks Transmeta is also working on. "