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Brier Still Doesn’t

Friday, December 1st, 2006

When everyone beat me up for speaking the truth about pretexting, I argued that “it wasn’t clearly illegal when Dunn did it”. I was, like many others, assuming that the hasty California law passage would take hold.
Who would have thought? The law flopped. It’s still not clearly illegal.
OK, we know that Brier doesn’t pretext, and neither […]

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Can Microsoft Innovate?

Friday, December 1st, 2006

WSJ is running a debate between two of my favorite people, Dave Winer and Robert Scoble. We gave Dave “firewood as a function of distance and price” before he even asked for it, but I actually don’t disagree with much of what he or Scoble say.
On the other hand, I agree with Dave’s assertion that the […]

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