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Even as Bill Gates pleaded ignorance in court last week of his smoking-gun e-mails, two fresh Microsoft memos mysteriously surfaced that give an inside glimpse into how the software giant responds to new ideas it finds threatening. It isn't a pretty sight. "These memorandums lay naked the assumptions of Microsoft's corporate culture--the insularity, the arrogance, the obsessive drive to control," declares Eric Raymond, the programmer who obtained the files and posted them on his website www.opensource.org...
...Federal Government's corporate-welfare programs started out as welfare. Some began as foreign aid and turned into long-term annuities for corporate beneficiaries. Typical is Bechtel Group Inc. (1997 revenues: $11.3 billion), the global construction and engineering giant owned by the Bechtel family. So far in the 1990s, Bechtel has received more than $2 billion in corporate welfare in the form of government insurance, loans and grants, in addition to foreign-aid contracts, one of which is now nearly 10 years...
These particles, called meteoroids, remain in orbit and gradually disperse along the comet's orbital path, forming a giant, debris-laden stream in space. In its yearly travels around the sun, Earth intersects with or comes close to that stream every November, and sightings of the Leonids have been recorded in texts as far back as A.D. 902. The speeding meteoroids hurtle into Earth's atmosphere, are heated by friction and become blazing meteors that are incinerated in midair...
...PITTSBURGH, PA., the world's scariest bat mitzvah party was held. The Titanic-theme event featured 12-ft. smokestacks at the buffet table, a steerage section for children and a giant photo of the honoree's face superimposed on the body of--no, not a Klansman--Kate Winslet...
WASHINGTON: More of Bill Gates?s videotaped testimony dribbled out Monday, as government antitrust lawyers opened up yet another front against the software giant. This time, the subject was Intel -- and the now-familiar blurry image of the billionaire was seen denying an attempt to muscle the chip-makers out of the software business. The feds are concerned about a meeting in August 1995 (when Microsoft appears to have been on something of a rampage, given the alleged Netscape shakedown that came a month before). Gates met with Andy Grove at Intel?s campus, intent on persuading his opposite number...