Monday, April 21, 2003

Patenting Web Services via Linux Business and Technology: "Charlie doesn't like to talk in terms of suing people, but says it may be advantageous to Web services players such as IBM, Microsoft, BEA, Sun and the service providers to have a license. The service providers could be practically anybody but it looks like it may behoove financial institutions and folks trafficking in multimedia - broadcast, audio and video - to check things out." 6:53:17 PM    The Soapbox

Mac OS X: NeXT Foundations Make the Difference via Ranchero.com: Brent points to an interesting piece by Dan Gillmor, "NeXT's technology was also way ahead of its time in the tools it offered developers. Programmers could assemble applications with relative ease, using powerful building blocks that were part of a sophisticated toolkit. In bringing the NeXT technology into the heart of the modern Mac environment, Apple has maintained the guts of the old NeXT architecture while simultaneously extending and enhancing it. Some in the former NeXT community worried that Apple, trying to accommodate its legacy customers, would create a Frankenstein, but that hasn't happened." 5:38:35 AM    The Soapbox