Wilke on Judege Jackson, Andrew Leonard on the open-source babel problem

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

The big MS news today had to be 

John Wilke's 
"Jackson Suggestion Spawns Scenarios For Ending of Microsoft 
Antitrust Case"

May 17, 1999
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB926894890283463225.htm

Judge Jackson's idea that Microsoft let personal-computer makers and
consumers pick the software they want on new machines suggests two
things:
that he was leaning in favor of the government's claims, but he wasn't
inclined to consider breaking up the company.



My cousin's (Ransom Love) company's OpenLinux is
reviewed by Andrew Leonard in Salon:

http://www.salonmagazine.com/tech/review/1999/05/11/openlinux/index.html
L i n u x   f o r   d u m m i e s ? 
CALDERA'S NEW PACKAGE IS EASY TO INSTALL -- |
BUT IT MAY POINT THE WAY TO AN OPEN-SOURCE BABEL.

Aside from commenting on the quality of this particular
distribution, Andrew discusses the practical problems
of a meal prepared by so many cooks, and he asks
if the open source community can really make this
new development model work.  

 
-- 
James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology
I can be reached at love@cptech.org, by telephone 202.387.8030,
by fax at 202.234.5176. CPT web page is http://www.cptech.org