Let's see; The movie industry is giving me movies in a format that I have confidence in that they won't degrade any time
What about scratches? Children can pretty safely manhandle VHS tapes and floppy disks because they are fairly protected. But DVDs and CDs are unbelivably fragile and there is nothing in the world more annoying than a skipping DVD.
soon at an affordable (sometimes dirt cheap) price with loads of extra material that wasn't in the theaters (a good percent of which is actually worth my time to enjoy). All of the discs can play on devices from my four year old DVD-ROM drive to the latest progressive scan player from Panasonic without a hitch.
But don't try the same DVD in the DVD player you bought when you lived in Tokyo or Munich.
And don't forget that they ADD software to DVD players to prevent you from fast-forwarding or popping up a menu when the DVD creator chooses to prevent you. And they put in copy protection to stop you from copying your DVD to tape. This also prevented me from piping my DVD output through my VCR to make up for an incompatibility between my DVD and TV. And then there is the CSS copy protection would also prevent users from backing up the DVD if it did not have such lame encryption.
Yeah, that sure fits the definition of anti-consumer.
I'm surprisied nobody else has noted that they already see behaviour like this. I certainly do. Every time I mistype a domain I get a web page from "buydomains.com". This is true even from virtuous open source software like curl, so it isn't a software thing. I'm on a Mac so it is unlikely to be spyware. I can only presume it is my ISP that has sold me out...
If many ISPs are moving in this direction then it is actually quite understandable why verisign wants a piece of the action. The end-user is going to be screwed either way, so why shouldn't they use their monopoly to screw the middle men? The user isn't any more screwed by getting a versign page rather than a buydomains page.
They don't live in a capitalist democracy. They live in an oligarchy. That there are some countries where capitalism does not take root quickly does not demonstrate that capitalism is itself bad.
Copyright law exists to protect something that someone has created and now, as a virtue of that creative act, owns
No. You cannot own either an idea or an expression of an idea (as if there were a clear line between those two to start with). You can be granted a time-limited exclusive right to distribute an idea or an expression of an idea, but that doesn't mean you own it.
So far all I've heard you do is take the easy way out and condone violation of the existing laws.
I didn't see the parent poster condone the violation of the laws. I saw him respect those laws by reading them carefully and noticing that they distinguish between theft and copyright infringement. If we all did that the debate could be more clearly framed in terms of law rather than emotional equations of stolen bikes and downloaded songs.
Good point! Maybe people just read less than they did. Science Fiction in particular may be vulnerable to movie-fication because of the special effects.
Without the aid of government, big business would have no more or less power than you or me.
Under any circumstance, money is power. If a business has the money to hire a hitman to have you killed, that is life-or-death power and government is on your side, not theirs. But their money could still buy them the power to kill you. Or as another example, if Microsoft has no more power than you, try to make a product that competes with Excel and see how many people you can get to buy it.
The libertarian claptrap gets a little tiring. It depends on as unrealistic a view of the world as communism does.
I was going to posit the exact opposite. If you look at most Science Fiction from the 50s or 60s, you see that people believed that technology would improve much more quickly than it did. Interstellar travel was just a few years away. All someone had to do was invent the proton drive or the warp core or whatever. But we are not really much closer to inventing those things than they were in the 50s or 60s. And we've had time for the implications of the theory of relativety to sink in. Unless we find these potentially impossible devices we'll NEVER be able to zip around the universe the way Captain Kirk did. And even boring old slower-than-light space travel is much harder than we expected. At the same time...we've had big problems with robotics and AI. We seemed to be making such great progress in the Alice and Lisp days but how much closer are we to something that could pass the Turing test? And then we invented cyberspace and it turned out to be just another advertisement-infested chat line (and not very spatial at all). And after decades of listening carefully for ET, some are starting to believe that either he isn't out there or he is as stuck on some isolated piece of rock as we are. Maybe he's a million years ahead of us in technology but hasn't found a practical way to visit other planets in a reasonable portio of his lifespan.
I think people are discouraged from dreaming about futures that seem to never arrive when we expect them to.
When C was developed in 1972, people had a very different expectation of usability in programming languages. Programmers had more time to learn languages in their entirety and they understood that they were working at such a low level that intuitions from the real world would usually be wrong. Anyhow, even today we use symbols in very confusing ways. In real-world math "=" means "is equal to", not "assign value to." Imagine if you saw an equation like: "x = x * 2" in the real-world. You would "solve" it be saying that x must be 0.
I am very enthusiastic about the fact that you are combining the global and local addressing schemes. I find the impedence mismatch between remote, URL-addressable objects and local, path-addressable objects to be quite unfortunate. Of course you can use file:// URLs but then they are system specific. A group of files connected using file:// URLs cannot even be reliably shared on a network share because the mount points might be different!
The file should be self-describing. It should have a header saying its type. You can never trust intermediary software to properly keep data and metadata together. The problem isn't just other operating systems. It is file formats like ZIP and prototols like FTP. Plus there is a problem that the file type a user gives a file on their computer may be just a means of triggering a bit of software (e.g. change a JSP file to HTML so it launches your HTML editor). But the intrinsic type of the file should not be corrupted by these user preferences.
I believe in open source (or at least want to). But I think money rules in this world. If you look at other forms of Media and Art, giving stuff away won't get movies like Matrix made.
Fine. But software is not media or art. It is functional.
This is not to say that there are not many, many very good independent films.
What do independent films have to do with open source software? Just as there are independent filmmakers, there are independent software vendors (ISVs). But that doesn't make them open source vendors.
I'm just saying that maybe Linux and other Open Source projects are trying to hard to get the wrong market.
Still don't follow your analogy.
With "limited" resources a focus should be made to take the server market from M$, drop the GUI crap, Linux WON'T win on the desktop (at least not yet). But can easily win on the server.
You say that Linux won't win the desktop "yet" but how would it ever win on the desktop if it dropped the GUI crap? When Linux was first developed, nobody thought it could win the server either. I'm sure some advocated they should just focus on the hobbyist market.
PDF is less convenient (to read) than physical media. But MP3s are more convenient (to listen to) than physical media. That's why people rip even CDs that they own into their MP3 players
People who collect MP3s are also collectors. I definately feel more like a collector when I occasionally log onto a P2P system then when I am in a CD store. While I am in the P2P system it is pure hunting and gathering with no concern about cost. When I am in the CD store it is about deciding which of the CDs are worthy my hard earned money (and let's not forget the space they take up in my CD rack).
On the one hand it is cool to look at my rack and see the stuff I own summarized nicely. But on the other hand, physical media is a pain in the ass. CDs and DVDs are really poorly designed media. Way too fragile. For DVDs: too many silly restraints about skipping FBI warnings and advertisments. For CDs: not enough information density. If I could leave that all behind I probably would.
Linux isn't the be-all and end-all to everything. Symbian is an excellent operating system designed for mobile phones and Nokia et al have pumped loads of money into Symbian and will continue to do so in the future.
Symbian is designed for small devices but actually predates its current incarnation as a mobile phone OS. Learning to program Symbian is difficult and expensive and the actual development is more difficult because of the differing memory management. As the CPUs get more and more powerful and the RAM becomes larger, the incentive to use a totally different programming model for phones will go away. Furthermore, if the apps are written in Java, it makes no sense to buy a commercial OS when you could just as easily run them on a free OS. Symbian will be replaced by a generic operating system. Maybe it will take 2 years. Maybe 5 years. Maybe 10. Symbian is to mobile phones what AmigaOS was to television production. When the mainstream OS becomes viable (and it will), the specialized one will succumb to economies of scale.
I'm sorry, "Energy Accounting" is just new-fangled terminology for communist wealth redistribution and the link you sent us to is incredibly naive about how it would work. It says: "Energy Credits are non-transferable. This means that they cannot be stolen, gambled, or otherwise lost. They also cannot be used to provide anyone with a controlling interest in societal mechanisms, which is commonly known as bribing." So let's say I use my energy credits to buy a fancy diamond ring. Let's say I want to bribe a judge or politician. How can you stop me from giving them my ring?
"Energy Accounting also eliminates the possibilty for profit motive, and thus ensures that all products and services are of the highest quality, with the lowest cost in resources."
Eliminating the profit motive will "ensure that products and services are of the highest quality with the lowest cost in resource?" Yeah, that's what they found when the eliminated the profit motive in Russia and China. The quality and resource efficiency of their processes were legendary!
"Experts would determine, scientifically and mathimatically the fastest, most efficient way to produce and distribute these goods and services to the populace." Egad. Totalitarian technocratic communism!
I agree that physics is more predictable than economics. But there are areas of physics that are chaotic and we don't ignore them. Meterology is sometimes wrong but when meteorologists tell us a hurricane is coming we don't call people who put up storm windows superstitious.
Yes, there are plenty of civilizations that failed to adavnce to new areas of technological progress, but do you really believe that (barring war, or environmental collapse, or something else external to economics) that the US is likely to stop progressing scientifically just because some IT jobs went to India? Seems totally illogical to me.
We have dozens of (failed) predictions of massive Western unemployment brought about by some technological advance or shift in trade patterns to go on. There have been doom and gloomers since the invention of the loom and fear of competition from Indians is no different. Either way it is a way of outsourcing work to the most economically efficient agent: the machine or the foreigner. I'm sorry, when I hear chicken littles crying that the sky is falling yet again, I find it hard to take them seriously.
I'm not a free trade or capitalism fundamentalist. For instance I think that there is a strong case to be made that developing countries can benefit from properly targetted tarrifs and subsidies. But in the rich world, I have no patience for whiners who would rather let the rest of the world rot in poverty than compete with them head-on and who would steal money from the pockets of the majority of consumers by artifically maintaining high prices on their services.
No, they are biased because they don't take stances against companies other than Microsoft. For instance SCO or Oracle (playing nasty with Peoplesoft).
Clearly nobody has the full package yet. But if you presume that Quartz/Display PDF are in the same category of component as Cairo then it is clear that the Mac is shipping with it today and it is still future development for standard Linux distros (setting aside OpenStep). But I'm not an advocate of any of the environments so I really don't care who is first as long as everyone keeps moving in the vector direction. I would like to see OSS and the Mac move ahead of Microsoft because I don't want the Microsoft APIs and vector file formats to become defacto standards just by virtue of being first. If Cairo/DPDF/SVG are widely deployed by the time LongHorn arives then Microsoft will feel some pressure to at least promise support for open standards in some timeframe.
There is a HUGE difference between manufactured goods and software development. It takes effort and money to bring goods in to the U.S. and those goods are generally taxed. Software development isn't, and it takes little effort to "move" code.
So you're saying that one process is inefficient and the other is efficient. So how is this morally different?
The other core difference is that the other jobs took more than 10 years to move offshore, this has taken around 2.
Are you saying that within two years the move of programmers offshore has been as complete as the move of textiles offshore was in any ten year period? That sounds like total BS to me. The VAST MAJORITY of the textile jobs moved offshore. Only a tiny fraction of programmer jobs have moved offshore.
I do find it ironic that hardly ANY open source development gets done by Indian programmers though...
Well then, companies like Red Hat and IBM like to hire talented open source programmers. I guess that's the niche you should focus on.
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Over the next few years, desktop graphical environments will move increasingly towards vector graphics and away from bitmaps. The Mac is already there. Windows and Linux are both in the development stage (Longhorn and Cairo respectively) and it will be interesting to see who gets there first. Desktops will finally scale properly to different sized monitors and there will be no excuse for apps that do not scale properly.
Once every operating system supports vectors natively, SVG will become a no-brainer. Why would we use vectors for everything on the desktop and then dumb it down to bitmaps for transmission over comparitively thin network pipes to devices of arbitrary size and shape? It would make no sense whatsoever. So SVG will replace a huge number of the GIFs and PNGs on the Web, to say nothing of Flash files.
A wonderful side effect of this will be that people will finally be able to have richly rendered text on the Web without resorting to binary formats like GIF and Flash. Imagine being able to cut and paste text even when it is embedded in highly stylized corporate graphics (as is becoming more and more common!).
There are really so many follow-on effects that we could have a long thread discussing them. Congratulations to the Cairo and X teams for taking a few more steps down the path!
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Let's see; The movie industry is giving me movies in a format that I have confidence in that they won't degrade any time
What about scratches? Children can pretty safely manhandle VHS tapes and floppy disks because they are fairly protected. But DVDs and CDs are unbelivably fragile and there is nothing in the world more annoying than a skipping DVD.
soon at an affordable (sometimes dirt cheap) price with loads of extra material that wasn't in the theaters (a good percent of which is actually worth my time to enjoy). All of the discs can play on devices from my four year old DVD-ROM drive to the latest progressive scan player from Panasonic without a hitch.
But don't try the same DVD in the DVD player you bought when you lived in Tokyo or Munich.
And don't forget that they ADD software to DVD players to prevent you from fast-forwarding or popping up a menu when the DVD creator chooses to prevent you. And they put in copy protection to stop you from copying your DVD to tape. This also prevented me from piping my DVD output through my VCR to make up for an incompatibility between my DVD and TV. And then there is the CSS copy protection would also prevent users from backing up the DVD if it did not have such lame encryption.
Yeah, that sure fits the definition of anti-consumer.
It sure does!
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Hillary Clinton has made countless nonsensical statements about how Canada is to blame for every fault in her little fantasy world.
What???
I'm surprisied nobody else has noted that they already see behaviour like this. I certainly do. Every time I mistype a domain I get a web page from "buydomains.com". This is true even from virtuous open source software like curl, so it isn't a software thing. I'm on a Mac so it is unlikely to be spyware. I can only presume it is my ISP that has sold me out... If many ISPs are moving in this direction then it is actually quite understandable why verisign wants a piece of the action. The end-user is going to be screwed either way, so why shouldn't they use their monopoly to screw the middle men? The user isn't any more screwed by getting a versign page rather than a buydomains page.
They don't live in a capitalist democracy. They live in an oligarchy. That there are some countries where capitalism does not take root quickly does not demonstrate that capitalism is itself bad.
Copyright law exists to protect something that someone has created and now, as a virtue of that creative act, owns
No. You cannot own either an idea or an expression of an idea (as if there were a clear line between those two to start with). You can be granted a time-limited exclusive right to distribute an idea or an expression of an idea, but that doesn't mean you own it.
So far all I've heard you do is take the easy way out and condone violation of the existing laws.
I didn't see the parent poster condone the violation of the laws. I saw him respect those laws by reading them carefully and noticing that they distinguish between theft and copyright infringement. If we all did that the debate could be more clearly framed in terms of law rather than emotional equations of stolen bikes and downloaded songs.
Good point! Maybe people just read less than they did. Science Fiction in particular may be vulnerable to movie-fication because of the special effects.
The cost/benefit of a change is hard to measure and the more code it breaks the harder it is to justify.
Without the aid of government, big business would have no more or less power than you or me.
Under any circumstance, money is power. If a business has the money to hire a hitman to have you killed, that is life-or-death power and government is on your side, not theirs. But their money could still buy them the power to kill you. Or as another example, if Microsoft has no more power than you, try to make a product that competes with Excel and see how many people you can get to buy it.
The libertarian claptrap gets a little tiring. It depends on as unrealistic a view of the world as communism does.
I was going to posit the exact opposite. If you look at most Science Fiction from the 50s or 60s, you see that people believed that technology would improve much more quickly than it did. Interstellar travel was just a few years away. All someone had to do was invent the proton drive or the warp core or whatever. But we are not really much closer to inventing those things than they were in the 50s or 60s. And we've had time for the implications of the theory of relativety to sink in. Unless we find these potentially impossible devices we'll NEVER be able to zip around the universe the way Captain Kirk did. And even boring old slower-than-light space travel is much harder than we expected. At the same time...we've had big problems with robotics and AI. We seemed to be making such great progress in the Alice and Lisp days but how much closer are we to something that could pass the Turing test? And then we invented cyberspace and it turned out to be just another advertisement-infested chat line (and not very spatial at all). And after decades of listening carefully for ET, some are starting to believe that either he isn't out there or he is as stuck on some isolated piece of rock as we are. Maybe he's a million years ahead of us in technology but hasn't found a practical way to visit other planets in a reasonable portio of his lifespan.
I think people are discouraged from dreaming about futures that seem to never arrive when we expect them to.
When C was developed in 1972, people had a very different expectation of usability in programming languages. Programmers had more time to learn languages in their entirety and they understood that they were working at such a low level that intuitions from the real world would usually be wrong. Anyhow, even today we use symbols in very confusing ways. In real-world math "=" means "is equal to", not "assign value to." Imagine if you saw an equation like: "x = x * 2" in the real-world. You would "solve" it be saying that x must be 0.
I am very enthusiastic about the fact that you are combining the global and local addressing schemes. I find the impedence mismatch between remote, URL-addressable objects and local, path-addressable objects to be quite unfortunate. Of course you can use file:// URLs but then they are system specific. A group of files connected using file:// URLs cannot even be reliably shared on a network share because the mount points might be different!
The file should be self-describing. It should have a header saying its type. You can never trust intermediary software to properly keep data and metadata together. The problem isn't just other operating systems. It is file formats like ZIP and prototols like FTP. Plus there is a problem that the file type a user gives a file on their computer may be just a means of triggering a bit of software (e.g. change a JSP file to HTML so it launches your HTML editor). But the intrinsic type of the file should not be corrupted by these user preferences.
I believe in open source (or at least want to). But I think money rules in this world. If you look at other forms of Media and Art, giving stuff away won't get movies like Matrix made.
Fine. But software is not media or art. It is functional.
This is not to say that there are not many, many very good independent films.
What do independent films have to do with open source software? Just as there are independent filmmakers, there are independent software vendors (ISVs). But that doesn't make them open source vendors.
I'm just saying that maybe Linux and other Open Source projects are trying to hard to get the wrong market.
Still don't follow your analogy.
With "limited" resources a focus should be made to take the server market from M$, drop the GUI crap, Linux WON'T win on the desktop (at least not yet). But can easily win on the server.
You say that Linux won't win the desktop "yet" but how would it ever win on the desktop if it dropped the GUI crap? When Linux was first developed, nobody thought it could win the server either. I'm sure some advocated they should just focus on the hobbyist market.
PDF is less convenient (to read) than physical media. But MP3s are more convenient (to listen to) than physical media. That's why people rip even CDs that they own into their MP3 players
People who collect MP3s are also collectors. I definately feel more like a collector when I occasionally log onto a P2P system then when I am in a CD store. While I am in the P2P system it is pure hunting and gathering with no concern about cost. When I am in the CD store it is about deciding which of the CDs are worthy my hard earned money (and let's not forget the space they take up in my CD rack).
On the one hand it is cool to look at my rack and see the stuff I own summarized nicely. But on the other hand, physical media is a pain in the ass. CDs and DVDs are really poorly designed media. Way too fragile. For DVDs: too many silly restraints about skipping FBI warnings and advertisments. For CDs: not enough information density.
If I could leave that all behind I probably would.
Okay, I'll bite. What the hell is daylight?
Linux isn't the be-all and end-all to everything. Symbian is an excellent operating system designed for mobile phones and Nokia et al have pumped loads of money into Symbian and will continue to do so in the future.
Symbian is designed for small devices but actually predates its current incarnation as a mobile phone OS. Learning to program Symbian is difficult and expensive and the actual development is more difficult because of the differing memory management. As the CPUs get more and more powerful and the RAM becomes larger, the incentive to use a totally different programming model for phones will go away. Furthermore, if the apps are written in Java, it makes no sense to buy a commercial OS when you could just as easily run them on a free OS. Symbian will be replaced by a generic operating system. Maybe it will take 2 years. Maybe 5 years. Maybe 10. Symbian is to mobile phones what AmigaOS was to television production. When the mainstream OS becomes viable (and it will), the specialized one will succumb to economies of scale.
I would say it is for companies who have spent a bundle making Windows software for in-house use and now wish to run it on Linux.
I'm sorry, "Energy Accounting" is just new-fangled terminology for communist wealth redistribution and the link you sent us to is incredibly naive about how it would work. It says: "Energy Credits are non-transferable. This means that they cannot be stolen, gambled, or otherwise lost. They also cannot be used to provide anyone with a controlling interest in societal mechanisms, which is commonly known as bribing." So let's say I use my energy credits to buy a fancy diamond ring. Let's say I want to bribe a judge or politician. How can you stop me from giving them my ring?
"Energy Accounting also eliminates the possibilty for profit motive, and thus ensures that all products and services are of the highest quality, with the lowest cost in resources."
Eliminating the profit motive will "ensure that products and services are of the highest quality with the lowest cost in resource?" Yeah, that's what they found when the eliminated the profit motive in Russia and China. The quality and resource efficiency of their processes were legendary!
"Experts would determine, scientifically and mathimatically the fastest, most efficient way to produce and distribute these goods and services to the populace." Egad. Totalitarian technocratic communism!
I agree that physics is more predictable than economics. But there are areas of physics that are chaotic and we don't ignore them. Meterology is sometimes wrong but when meteorologists tell us a hurricane is coming we don't call people who put up storm windows superstitious.
Yes, there are plenty of civilizations that failed to adavnce to new areas of technological progress, but do you really believe that (barring war, or environmental collapse, or something else external to economics) that the US is likely to stop progressing scientifically just because some IT jobs went to India? Seems totally illogical to me.
We have dozens of (failed) predictions of massive Western unemployment brought about by some technological advance or shift in trade patterns to go on. There have been doom and gloomers since the invention of the loom and fear of competition from Indians is no different. Either way it is a way of outsourcing work to the most economically efficient agent: the machine or the foreigner.
I'm sorry, when I hear chicken littles crying that the sky is falling yet again, I find it hard to take them seriously.
I'm not a free trade or capitalism fundamentalist. For instance I think that there is a strong case to be made that developing countries can benefit from properly targetted tarrifs and subsidies. But in the rich world, I have no patience for whiners who would rather let the rest of the world rot in poverty than compete with them head-on and who would steal money from the pockets of the majority of consumers by artifically maintaining high prices on their services.
No, they are biased because they don't take stances against companies other than Microsoft. For instance SCO or Oracle (playing nasty with Peoplesoft).
Clearly nobody has the full package yet. But if you presume that Quartz/Display PDF are in the same category of component as Cairo then it is clear that the Mac is shipping with it today and it is still future development for standard Linux distros (setting aside OpenStep). But I'm not an advocate of any of the environments so I really don't care who is first as long as everyone keeps moving in the vector direction. I would like to see OSS and the Mac move ahead of Microsoft because I don't want the Microsoft APIs and vector file formats to become defacto standards just by virtue of being first. If Cairo/DPDF/SVG are widely deployed by the time LongHorn arives then Microsoft will feel some pressure to at least promise support for open standards in some timeframe.
There is a HUGE difference between manufactured goods and software development. It takes effort and money to bring goods in to the U.S. and those goods are generally taxed. Software development isn't, and it takes little effort to "move" code.
So you're saying that one process is inefficient and the other is efficient. So how is this morally different?
The other core difference is that the other jobs took more than 10 years to move offshore, this has taken around 2.
Are you saying that within two years the move of programmers offshore has been as complete as the move of textiles offshore was in any ten year period? That sounds like total BS to me. The VAST MAJORITY of the textile jobs moved offshore. Only a tiny fraction of programmer jobs have moved offshore.
I do find it ironic that hardly ANY open source development gets done by Indian programmers though...
Well then, companies like Red Hat and IBM like to hire talented open source programmers. I guess that's the niche you should focus on.
Over the next few years, desktop graphical environments will move increasingly towards vector graphics and away from bitmaps. The Mac is already there. Windows and Linux are both in the development stage (Longhorn and Cairo respectively) and it will be interesting to see who gets there first. Desktops will finally scale properly to different sized monitors and there will be no excuse for apps that do not scale properly.
Once every operating system supports vectors natively, SVG will become a no-brainer. Why would we use vectors for everything on the desktop and then dumb it down to bitmaps for transmission over comparitively thin network pipes to devices of arbitrary size and shape? It would make no sense whatsoever. So SVG will replace a huge number of the GIFs and PNGs on the Web, to say nothing of Flash files.
A wonderful side effect of this will be that people will finally be able to have richly rendered text on the Web without resorting to binary formats like GIF and Flash. Imagine being able to cut and paste text even when it is embedded in highly stylized corporate graphics (as is becoming more and more common!).
There are really so many follow-on effects that we could have a long thread discussing them. Congratulations to the Cairo and X teams for taking a few more steps down the path!
Yep. Here are some headlines from their home page:
"CCIA Unsuprised By New Evidence in European Commission Microsoft Case, Stresses Importance of Effective Remedies"
"Attorney General Tom Reilly is right to continue fighting a settlement with the Microsoft Corporation that fails to protect consumers."
"CCIA Welcomes Microsoft "Netscape Fine"
"CCIA Condemns Microsoft Predatory Pricing Scheme "
"CCIA, SIIA Filing Brief Appealing U.S. v. Microsoft Decision"