1999 Readings

• A harmony of fruit and a final poignant production run: "It brings tears to my eyes" (San Jose Mercury)
• Sun imposes Java branding royalty (ZDNet)
• A ho-ho-hosing for Java-heads and more holiday cheer (PC Week)
• Richard Stallman -- Boycott Amazon! (Linux Today)
• Sun and partners ponder Java's future (ZDNet)
• Java tug-of-war (InfoWorld)
• Java IDE Comparison (InfoWorld)
• Java on MacOS X (www.warnertechnology.com)
• Sun scrambles to preserve Java coalition (PC Week)
• Sun apologizes to developers of Java on Linux (www.computerworld.com)
• Sun withdraws Java from standards process (PC Week)
• Java keeps on grinding away at enterprise resistance (PC Week)
• Sun feels the Java heat from rivals (news.com)
• McNealy Says Software Wants To Be Free (Techweb)
• McNealy rings bell for Java (PC Week)
• Sun to drop some Java royalties (news.com)
• Who really owns Java? (PC Week)
• Sun shakes up its software division (PC Week)
• Sun brings Java and Jini closer together (www.vnunet.com)
• Sun, Inprise to bring Java 2 Platform to Linux (InfoWorld) (InfoWorld)
• Sun misses Java standard deadline (news.com)
• Orwellian Nightmare Down Under? (wired.lycos.com)
• Sun steps up supercomputing push (news.com)
• Microsoft ditches its Java tool (www.vnunet.com)
• Groups ask FTC to close e-mail flaw (12/03/1999) (San Jose Mercury)
• The New Crypto-Commies (ZDNet)
• Testing and Java(TM) Technology (developer.java.sun.com)
• Sun wary of Java standard (InfoWorld) (InfoWorld)
• Sun to shine on Enterprise Java (PC Week)
• Reclaiming the glory (community.borland.com)
• Are Computer Magazines Dead? (download.cnet.com)
• Development, Ethical Trading, and Free Software (www.anatomy.usyd.edu.au)
• Sun wants to 'community source' everything (www.cnn.com)
• Sun, ECMA fall out over Java standardization (InfoWorld)
• How To Write Unmaintainable Code (mindprod.com)
• Fear of Forking How the GPL Keeps Linux Unified and Strong (www.linuxcare.com)
• NetBeans perks up dull Czech start-up scene (San Jose Mercury)
• Tcl + Java = A match made for scripting (www.sunworld.com)
• Unblocking threads (community.borland.com)
• Singles convention didn't quite ring true (San Jose Mercury)
• Java entrepreneur keen on new venture (news.com)
• Microsoft outlines Windows 2000 pricing (news.com)
• New workstation shows Sun's focus (news.com)
• RealNetworks stops secret information collection (San Jose Mercury)
• The tutti-frutti explosion (San Jose Mercury)
• Crypto AG: The NSA's Trojan Whore? (mediafilter.org)
• Sun sees revival in its Asian sales (San Jose Mercury)
• Oracle To Rejuvenate Network Computer Push 'Soon' (dailynews.yahoo.com)
• Ebay leaning away from Sun servers (news.com)
• Study reveals not-so-hot Java (news.com)
• Sun's War of Trenches (www.upsidetoday.com)
• wincent.org: The BOZO Bit by John Kheit (wincent.org)
• IBM, Sun ease deployment of Java apps on open platform (InfoWorld)
• Java Keeps Microsoft Attorneys Hopping (Techweb)
• S.F. Treasure Hunt for Pirated Software Flops/Rally for turn-ins fails to produce any of the illegal booty (www.sfgate.com)
• SOAP could slip up Microsoft rivals (news.cnet.com)
• No ruling in Java hearing (news.cnet.com)
• AOL, Sun Repeat History (www.upside.com)
• No, Sun Doesn't Get It (www.upside.com)
• Client-side Java development makes a comeback (PC Week)
• Internet Explorer vulnerable to Java security problem (news.cnet.com)
• Conference Report: October 8, 1999: A Natural Home for Open Source (www.ddj.com)
• MediaOne fires volley in TV set-top fight (news.cnet.com)
• Apple's Driven Me To Wintel, Joe Brancatelli (www.byte.com)
• Three firms to boost traditional Linux version (news.cnet.com)
• Sun Makes First MAJC Chip Appear (Techweb)
• TechSearch (Techweb)
• Torvalds comes out swinging at open-source wannabes (PC Week)
• Reverse-engineering the GNU Public Virus (www.LINUXWORLD.com)
• Leaked email exposes MS charity as PR exercise (www.theregister.co.uk)
• Java Grande (developer.java.sun.com)
• Sun to make Solaris code available (ZDNet)
• Quantum confidential (www.newscientist.co.uk)
• Enterprise Computing - Could Sueltz bring end to Sun, HP Java fight? (news.cnet.com)
• New Sun software chief prepares to settle in (PC Week)
• Do penguins eat apples? (Salon)
• Sun releases real-time spec for Java (ZDNet)
• Sun posts beta of next-generation Java (news.cnet.com)
• Linux gets nod with Borland tools support (InfoWorld)
• School expels PCs, goes to head of the class (www.cnn.com)
• Paving Java's Path to the Desktop (www.internetworld.com)
• J Consortium to release embedded Java spec for review (PC Week)
• Sun weighs Santa Clara headquarters (San Jose Mercury)
• Java in the crucible as Sun takes aim at embedded market (PC Week)
• Groups divided on unifying e-commerce measure (news.cnet.com)
• Sun releases complete chip design for free (news.cnet.com)
• Microsoft: Sun lawsuit tries to have it both ways (news.cnet.com)
• Linux Databases, Jon Udell (www.byte.com)
• A Demonstration of Jini Technology and the K Virtual Machine (developer.java.sun.com)
• Will Linux conquer the desktop? Not without Linux Lite (207.178.22.52)
• Microsoft eyes next big boom: e-commerce tools (news.cnet.com)
• Zap! ... and your PC's dead (ZDNet)
• Slashdot Interviews : Tim O'Reilly Answers (slashdot.org)
• Sun seeks reinstatement of Microsoft injunction (InfoWorld)
• Sun unveils cheap un-PC (San Jose Mercury)
• Sun looks toward a new dawn in thin clients (news.com)
• Lesson's of a waylaid 'giant-slayer' (www.boston.com)
• Privacy is Not Doomed (www.techreview.com)
• Privacy Groups Dismiss Microsoft NSA Denial (Techweb)
• Sun's StarOffice Release: Is It Really What You Think? (perens.com)
• The Volano Report (www.volano.com)
• Do MS Operating Systems Have a Backdoor? (www.ntsecurity.net)
• Hackers answer Microsoft's Windows 2000 dare (news.com)
• Microsoft to counter Sun software giveaway plans (news.com)
• Sun setting on JCP? (InfoWorld)
• Hotmail: Case of the phantom hacker (www.msnbc.com)
• The FBI wants to read your email (news.com)
• Sun's Star deal reverses Corel, Applix stock surge (news.com)
• Microsoft confrontation downplayed by McNealy (San Jose Mercury)
• Microsoft eyes shift of software to the Web (San Jose Mercury)
• Sun to offer Microsoft Office competitor for free (news.com)
• Malicious Java code uses IE to access computers (news.com)
• SiliconValley.com: News: Special Report: Linus Torvalds (San Jose Mercury)
• Sun-Netscape alliance preparing another e-commerce offering (news.com)
• Tech industry needs to fight creationism (San Jose Mercury)
• Republicans back creationism, scientists shocked (San Jose Mercury)
• A Flaw Worse Than Melissa (Wired)
• Percolating Java (UPSIDE today)
• Fatal Obsession: Could McNealy's Gates' Envy Kill Sun? (ZDNet)
• Sun, IBM decaffeinate JavaOS (news.com)
• How much weight does Java decision carry? (news.com)
• The Re-Unification of Linux (slashdot.org)
• Biographer says Carl Sagan drew inspiration from marijuana (cnn.com)
• Yahoo - Sun Micro says U.S. Army testing Jini (biz.yahoo.com)
• Round Two For Java Thin Clients (ZDNet)
• Jurassic lark: Dell IDs world's oldest PC (dailynews.yahoo.com)
• Excite Computers_and_internet: Tech_news: ZDNet Tech News (www.excite.com)
• Sun buying Microsoft Office competitor (news.com)
• Is Ann Livermore the Hottest Property in the Valley? (www.businessweek.com)
• Kestrel (JDK 1.3) and Swing: A Sneak Preview (java.sun.com)
• Sun details 'MAJC' appliance chip (InfoWorld) (InfoWorld)
• Sun And IBM announce Java Media Framework 2.0 API (java.sun.com)
• An Interview with Michael Tiemann (www.linuxworld.com)
• ParaSoft's jtest 3.0 Unifies Java Testing (PC Week)
• Year 2000 (www.hartscientific.com)
• The Coming Software Patent Crisis: Can Linux Survive? (linuxjournal.com:82)
• Code Cracker Worries Cryptographers (dailynews.yahoo.com)
• Bookshelves of Java Technology Literati ( Jane Christophersen)
• The "Findings of Fiction" in Microsoft trial (San Jose Mercury)
• Performing penguins provoke protest (San Jose Mercury)
• Reach, pay drawing developers to Java, Linux (news.com)
• Microsoft fights talent drain with new tools, API (news.com)
• Face value: Bill Joy, the brains behind Sun (www.economist.com)
• Melissa variant pokes fun at Bill Gates (InfoWorld) (InfoWorld)
• Potential security risk is key issue in Microsoft case (San Jose Mercury)
• Test Center (InfoWorld)
• Confessed hacker Mitnick sentenced (news.com)
• Student's Software Aces Microsoft (dailynews.yahoo.com)
• Microsoft brings partners, Java compiler into tool suite (InfoWorld) (InfoWorld)
• Voices From The Movie Line (Jon Katz)
• Man of the Century: Linus Torvalds? (ZDNet)
• Java champion to leave Sun for banking post (San Jose Mercury)
• The Stranglehold of the Priesthood Has Been Broken (www.webword.com)
• Did Baratz succeed with Java message? (news.com)
• Legal group approves controversial software license law (Computerworld)
• Marimba files patent-infringement suit against Novadigm (news.com)
• SGI cutting back key projects (news.com)
• Sun Conjures Java CPU For Media Apps (Techweb)
• Software plan is a travesty for consumers (San Jose Mercury)
• Office 97 hole can allow code to take over (news.com)
• Lawmakers bar spending on FBI surveillance plan (news.com)
• U.S. plans Y2K bunker, Clinton aide to tell Senate (CNN)
• Group approves controversial software law (InfoWorld)
• Microsoft is right, for once (Eric S. Raymond)
• Advocates of privacy alarmed by security plan (San Jose Mercury)
• DOJ studies Microsoft breakup (news.com)
• Microsoft Windows Rules the Universe (Gerald Holmes)
• 'Girly' iBook Not Worthy of Men (Wired)
• Broad FBI computer monitoring proposed (news.com)
• Sun-Netscape Alliance sets date for software (news.com)
• Let my Legos go! (Forbes)
• Microsoft brings partners, Java compiler into Visual Studio (InfoWorld)
• Sun to buy Linux competitor to MS Office? (THE REGISTER)
• Bud Tribble -- New CTO of Sun-Netscape Alliance sets the strategy (InfoWorld)
• Riled IBM workers talking about a union (San Jose Mercury)
• DON'T WORRY WINDOWS USERS, EVERYTHING WILL BO2K (Cult of the Dead Cow)
• Sun reports record profits (news.com)
• Microsoft sees threats over developers (news.com)
• The Palm V meets J2ME (JavaWorld)
• Sun promotes storage management standard (InfoWorld)
• WebObjects: Apple's best-kept secret? (news.com)
• Sun basks in Jini's potential in land of many devices (InfoWorld)
• Sun's Bill Joy (Techweb)
• Transvirtual speeds up Kaffe Java VM (PC Week)
• Columbine: Whose Fault Is It? (Marilyn Manson)
• AOL releases open-source software (news.com)
• The war over your personal privacy is over. You Lost! (Seattle Weekly)
• Piecework (San Jose Mercury)
• Microsoft loses another round to Caldera (news.com)
• Big Fish: Bill Joy meets the press (The Red Herring)
• Bills Would Fence Off the Facts (Wired)
• The Problem With Bounty (graydon hoare)
• "Star Wars" despots vs. "Star Trek" populists (Salon)
• Linux community vs. Linux industry? (Linux Today)
• The 1999 Java Technology Achievement Award (Java Developer Connection)
• Are portals slaves to Windows? (news.com)
• Mozilla Manager Denies Trouble (The Industry Standard: )
• Java standardization process moves forward (PC Week)
• Sun mulls open-source options for Netscape browser (news.com)
• Piecework is a practice that should be stopped (6/28/1999) (San Jose Mercury)
• Java standard vote opens door for Microsoft (news.com)
• Piecework (San Jose Mercury)
• PC Week Labs' tests show what path Linux must take (PC Week)
• Psion handheld computers to sport Java (news.com)
• U.K. Wants ISPs To Build In Interception (Techweb)
• Dirty Java: Optimizing Pure Java (Gamasutra)
• Java injunction argued (news.com)
• Internet Security Algorithms Applicability Statement (Scott Bradner)
• Flash Dips a Toe in Java, MP3 (Wired)
• The Cult of Java (Wired)
• MS: We're Not Java Pirates (Wired)
• Sun: Better Linux than MS (Wired)
• Sun servlet and JSP code to be available under the Apache license (JavaWorld)
• Palm V the Big Draw at JavaOne (Wired)
• Sun spreads the "Java everywhere" message (news.com)
• Sun Aligns with Palm and Apache (Wired)
• Java's dual personality (San Jose Mercury)
• Java Finally Gets Grounded (ZDNet)
• McNealy critical of Microsoft investments (news.com)
• Java clone adds Microsoft, sidesteps Sun (news.com)
• Sun to announce PalmPilot-Java tie-up (news.com)
• Consumer group to fight DoubleClick deal (news.com)
• James Gosling looks back at the Java language's past and forward to its future (JavaWorld)
• Sun to announce JavaPhone spec at Supercomm (news.com)
• Prosecutors focus on browser emails (news.com)
• Congress, NSA butt heads over Echelon (Federal Computer Weekly)
• LJ: Larry Wall, the Guru of Perl (Linux Journal)
• Licensing time bomb (InfoWorld)
• Slashdot:The War Against The Hackers (Jon Katz)
• Software standards reborn (San Jose Mercury)
• Rulings may have Sun on the run (news.com)
• Careful, they might hear you (The Age)
• A campus window on enterprise IT's future (PC Week)
• Court makes tentative rulings in Sun-Microsoft case (InfoWorld)
• Judge: Microsoft doesn't have to pass Sun's Java tests (PC Week)
• Gosling: No Fast, Easy Fix on Java 2 Browser Support (Computer World)
• Split decision in tentative Java rulings (news.com)
• SGI licenses Sun's Java 3D technology (news.com)
• Tentative Ruling on Java (Wired)
• Did Sun Inflate Mitnick Damages? (Wired)
• Microsoft forms group to counter Linux (news.com)
• Firm unveils encrypted free email (news.com)
• Careful, they might hear you (The Age)
• A campus window on enterprise IT's future (PC Week)
• Court makes tentative rulings in Sun-Microsoft case (InfoWorld)
• Judge: Microsoft doesn't have to pass Sun's Java tests (PC Week)
• Gosling: No Fast, Easy Fix on Java 2 Browser Support (Computer World)
• Split decision in tentative Java rulings (news.com)
• SGI licenses Sun's Java 3D technology (news.com)
• Tentative Ruling on Java (Wired)
• Did Sun Inflate Mitnick Damages? (Wired)
• Microsoft forms group to counter Linux (news.com)
• Firm unveils encrypted free email (news.com)
• Hushmail (Wired)
• Electronic wiretaps tripled last year (USA Today)
• Microsoft Releases Java Interoperability Kit (Techweb)
• U.S. Uses Key Escrow To Steal Secrets (Techweb)
• Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright (Eben Moglen)
• Oracle ships beta of new Java toolset (news.com)
• Tru64 to share Linux code (IT Week)
• Microsoft may have to pay temps millions (news.com)
• NSI passes antitrust test, sort of (news.com)
• Net number system at a crossroads (news.com)
• Big Entities Stash Net Addresses (ZDNet)
• Microsoft recruits third-party allies (InfoWorld)
• Rival Java consortium formed (news.com)
• Encryption Author Seeks Probe Details (San Francisco Gate)
• Math professor wins landmark crypto ruling (news.com)
• Lotus aims Java tools at Domino developers (news.com)
• Sun renews Java standards effort (news.com)
• Sun revising plan for Java recognition (news.com)
• JTC 1 Chairman's Comments on Recent Press Articles Regarding Sun Microsystem's PAS Submitter Status (ISO JTC1)
• The Price of Being Different (Jon Katz, Slashdot)
• Sun revising plan for Java recognition (news.com)
• Java-standards picture grows blurry (InfoWorld) (InfoWorld)
• Java Lawsuit Documents May Be Unsealed (Techweb)
• Sun blames Microsoft as its Java standardisation plans die (IT Week)
• Marimba ups IPO offering price (news.com)
• Java bug crashes Windows 95, 98 (news.com)
• Sun to take the wraps off HotSpot (PC Week)
• Sun offers office desktop from anywhere (news.com)
• E-commerce duel shaping up (news.com)
• HP targets teens with cool calculators (San Jose Mercury)
• Java: Name your price (PC Week)
• Borland Unveils JBuilder 3 (Techweb)
• Inprise revs JBuilder tool (news.com)
• Apple to open part of QuickTime code (news.com)
• Yes, we do need the MS Windows source code! (Linux Today)
• Why We Don't Want the Windows Source Code (Linux Today)
• Richard Stallman -- The Microsoft Antitrust Trial and Free Software (Linux Today)
• Sun delivers free updated JVM for Solaris (InfoWorld)
• New top level domains on horizon (news.com)
• Sun sees bright future (news.com)
• IBM posts what it claims is fastest JVM for Windows (InfoWorld) (InfoWorld)
• Linux knocked in OS study (news.com)
• Lucy Linux, Dressed to Kill: Sex and Lies at the Punch Bowl (Applelinks.com: The Warp Core)
• Response to Microsoft from Open Source Community (Eric Raymond, Larry Wall, et al)
• Free Java knockoff steers clear of Sun (news.com)
• Microsoft Swipes At Java Again (Techweb)
• Sun gets Solaris into the NT act (news.com)
• Java: No Longer A Systems Language (Byte)
• Animals add life to tech manuals (USA Today)
• Java I/O Performance Tuning (sun.com)
• Tuning Java I/O Performance (Java Developer Connection)
• Understand My Job, Please! (Eric Raymond)
• Sun, Netscape detail plans to merge their Web software (InfoWorld)
• Sun's stock also rises (news.com)
• Timing Trials, or, the Trials of Timing: Experiments with Scripting and User-Interface Languages (Brian Kernighan and Chris van Wyk)
• Do We Need a New Evangelist? (Bruce Perens)
• Replacing ESR is the Wrong Goal (Eric W. Sink)
• How To Become A Hacker (Eric Raymond)
• HP works to reverse Sun Java victory (news.com)
• Removing the plank (Linux World)
• Sun gets small with Java-based browser (news.com)
• Microsoft hasn't killed off Java yet (PC Week)
• Truste clears Microsoft on technicality (news.com)
• IBM, Novell bundle Java, server technology (news.com)
• Microsoft may jolt Java (InfoWorld)
• Apple's non-free source license (Linux Today: Richard Stallman)
• Dell preinstalling Linux on workstations (news.com)
• a/mc (Eric Raymond)
• Halloween V (Eric Raymond, Linux World)
• Is Your Software In Danger of Termination? (Bruce Perens)
• Cunning computer emulators (The Economist)
• HP steams ahead on Java (news.com)
• Fortress Microsoft (Salon)
• Summit Piece (Thomas Scoville)
• Vint Cerf designing network for solar system (San Jose Mercury)
• Sun, Adobe offer bounty for XSL (news.com)
• Sun spec to link XML, Java (news.com)
• Microsoft eyes Internet-content protection (InfoWorld)
• Source: Odds favor Microsoft-DOJ deal (San Jose Mercury)
• Perl, the first postmodern computer language (Larry Wall)
• Open source software braces for another big year (InfoWorld)
• Microsoft admits privacy problem, plans fix (news.com)
• Report: "Bill? Bill Who?" (Junkbusters)
• Inferno heats up networking race (news.com)
• Air Traveler's Bill of Rights is ready for takeoff (Dave Barry)
• Sun hesitant on Solaris licensing plans (news.com)
• VRML looks to open source (news.com)
• Sun makes Java 2 platform source code public (InfoWorld) (InfoWorld)
• SAFE bill gets new life (ZDNet)
• Sun (almost) opens Solaris (ZDNet)
• Security Alert: Bug found in GNU acronym (gnudist.gnu.org)
• Newsmaker: Alan Baratz / (Internet World)
• Interview with Dennis M. Ritchie (LinuxFocus 1999)
• Judge says injunction does not apply to independent Java (InfoWorld)
• HotSpot finally makes its mark (news.com)
• Windows Source Code (mrsteve)
• Chase admits another tape fudge (news.com)
• Net privacy protection measures proposed (news.com)
• Microsoft jilts Java tool (InfoWorld)
• Prosecutors pondering remedies against Microsoft (San Jose Mercury)
• Microsoft denies rumors that it's recreating Java (San Jose Mercury)
• O'Really?
• New documents reveal underbelly of Sun-Microsoft Java battle (PC Week)
• New NT 4.0 Service Pack has compliant Java VM (PC Week)
• Sun demurs on making Java open source (PC Week)
• Microsoft mulls alternative to Java (PC Week)
• Free-PC is a con game (I, Cringely)
• Microsoft may face licensing of code (news.com)
• Virginia's limit on workers' computer use is upheld (San Jose Mercury)
• New encryption code could remain a secret (San Jose Mercury)
• The beauty of a world without privacy (ZDNet)
• Being free to vent on Net (San Jose Mercury)
• Microsoft asks court to dismiss charges (news.com)
• Sun opposes Microsoft Java appeal (news.com)
• Sun joins fray in tackling XML (InfoWorld)
• Sun: Unix beats Windows in "uptime" (news.com)
• AOL-Netscape deal draws a billion from Sun (news.com)
• Microsoft's browser tactics revealed (news.com)
• Anti-Mac (Communications of the ACM)
• Latest version of Tower's Java compiler enters beta (PC Week)
• Microsoft calls video demo a "simulation" (news.com)
• Gay rights travel flap snares Microsoft, Yahoo (news.com)
• Microsoft Video Forgery not so innocent (San Jose Mercury)
• VA Research on a Linux mission (news.com)
• Feds broaden crypto standards (news.com)
• The Hampster Dance ()
• Sun aims high and low (news.com)
• Far-reaching patent suit hits Microsoft (news.com)
• MS videotape not what it seemed (ZDNet)
• Sun revises PersonalJava (news.com)
• McNealy: Don't break up Microsoft (news.com)
• Sun's workstations do Windows (news.com)
• Iona fortifies Java strategy (news.com)
• Sun still sees higher second-half revenues (2/01/1999) (San Jose Mercury)
• E-rate under new attack in Congress (news.com)
• Linux Up Close: Time To Switch (ZDNet)
• Office the 'perfect club' to use on Apple -- MS (The Register)
• Corio looks for a little push from Marimba (news.com)
• Court to Release Tape of Gates (New York Times)
• Microsoft hands over documents (PC Week)
• Microsoft has your number (Salon)
• Judge grants Microsoft additional time on Java (InfoWorld) (InfoWorld)
• One of Inprise's offshoots: Borland.com (1/27/1999) (San Jose Mercury)
• Microsoft partly yields on temp workers (news.com)
• Sun joins security research effort (news.com)
• Arizona lawmaker seeks to ban Pentium III (news.com)
• The Edison of the Internet (Fortune: 2.15.99 )
• Sun set to release Jini -- and take its lumps (PC Week)
• Intel rivals call security plan inflexible (news.com)
• Jini Sun's entry to consumer electronics (news.com)
• Intel wavers in wake of boycott (news.com)
• Pentium III threatens privacy despite Intel's promise (San Jose Mercury)
• Sun hopes you're dreaming of Jini (San Jose Mercury)
• Sun beats estimates by a penny (news.com)
• Sun, Microsoft file dueling motions (news.com)
• Linux gets more business-friendly (news.com)
• L. Peter Deutsch in conversation with Stig Hackvän (devlinux.org)
• Sun, Sony, Philips wiring homes (news.com)
• Rational unifies testing tools (news.com)
• Sun scores in real-time Java debate (SunWorld - January 1999)
• Proposal to change standards process for real-time Java fails (PC Week)
• No choice perfect on encryption (San Jose Mercury)
• Did Microsoft and HP collude on embedded Java? (PC Week)
• McNealy jousts with government (news.com)
• Bruce McKinney's Hardcore Visual Basic ()
• Judge's Java ruling appealed (San Jose Mercury)
• Angry judge tells Microsoft to redo 'temp' contracts (Seattle Times)
• Red alert issued in India against US network software (Economic Times)
• Netscape envisions lengthy takeover process (PC Week)
• Cyber-vigilantes hunt down hackers (CNN)
• Microsoft confirms 2001 time bug (news.com)
• Sun software targets telcos, ISPs (news.com)
• Sun telco server guarantees 99.999% uptime (news.com)
• Yahoo not amused by pot parody site (news.com)
• Sun works with simulated Merced chip (news.com)
• '99 Problem Trips Up Few Computers (New York Times)
• Microsoft fires back at Sun's Jini (InfoWorld) (InfoWorld)
• Money talks on the phone (San Jose Mercury)
• Temps Take Microsoft to Task (Wired)
• Microsoft overcharged by $10 billion (news.com)
• Microsoft forcing temps to give up claims in lawsuit (Seattle Times)
• The return of BSD (SunWorld)
• April Flaws' Day awaits (San Jose Mercury)
• Judge orders Java settlement negotiations (news.com)
• IBM's alphaWorks: Thinking outside the blue box (InfoWorld) (InfoWorld)
• Microsoft e-mail calls cross-platform pursuit a 'disease' (InfoWorld) (InfoWorld)
• The ecology of Java (Salon)
• In the shadows no longer, Sun's stock is shining (San Jose Mercury)
• Sun's New Java Source Licensing Policies (George Paolini)
• When Software Things Were Rotten (Eric Raymond)
• The Road to Isengard (Robert Eckstein)
• Microsoft bribes South Carolina Republicans (AP)