Archive for the 'software politics' Category

Amnesty International: Give Us More Money to Do Nothing

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

I am sure that Amnesty International gets tons of money from Microsoft employees.  And it’s great that people can feel good about themselves by spending money to change the world.  But this is really a waste of time.
Basically, AI wants you to boycott Google, since Google gave information to the Chinese government.  This is how […]

Oh No!!! People Will Love It!

Friday, July 14th, 2006

Please tell me this is a bad joke.  We ship a piece of software that allows people to encrypt their own personal files.  Some enterprises realize that users might actually use the software, and they cry foul.  So we kill the product.
That is completely insane.  Clearly people are fiending for this functionality.  Unless this is […]

Google CEO says “Suck it Up”

Sunday, July 9th, 2006

The Google CEO is now saying that click fraud isn’t a big problem; it’ll fix itself.  I agree with him, but not for the reasons stated.  I think he tries to come off as being honest, but is rather deceptive.  His claims:

It’s still worth it for advertisers to do business with us.  Click fraud is part of […]

Scoble’s Bridges

Monday, June 19th, 2006

Scoble says “farewell“, and Nick Carr says that Scoble might be burning bridges.  Scoble tends to never say bad things about past employers, so perhaps Nick doesn’t trust Scoble’s comments about the situation.  On the other hand, I’ve known Scoble since three companies before he worked at Microsoft, and I’ve never hesitated to say exactly […]

Giving Away Attention

Saturday, June 3rd, 2006

[via Scripting] Gillmor challenges Microsoft to endorse free and open attention data interchange.  He then asserts that Google would surely follow suit (if not lead the way), and Yahoo is just nervous.  To me, this is as naive as Tim Berners-Lee currently going around saying that “the semantic web is finally happening”.
I want to believe it, […]