Thursday, March 28, 2002

6:53:09 PM   Mary Wehmeier wrote a letter to Senator Hollings. It's the first letter I've seen from a user explaining the consequences the senator's bill would have on the vendors' products she depends on. In other words, users can't afford to be silent on this bill. If you like our software and you want it to keep evolving and improving, you have a stake in the outcome.  [via Scripting News]

6:48:23 PM   Reuters.  A ruling by a Dutch appeals court to throw out charges against FastTrack (the P2P music sharing technology provider) could make it impossible for the music and movie industries to continue on their present course.  Prepare yourselves for an all you can eat digital media subscription service coming to a PC near you.  As I pointed out below, it's inevitable.  This ruling just accelerates it. [via John Robb's Radio Weblog] //  Here is this again, just had to highlight here a little.

5:58:27 PM   // And while I was in the monkey story territory I poked around and found a few short paragraphs on the value of UML. which I like.  It is not the silver bullet ( there is none ) but can help with improving communication on projects which is (or should be) the target for all silver bullets.

5:32:05 PM   Reuters: "A Dutch appeals court on Thursday told an Internet software company it could distribute a software program that is designed to let users share music and films on the Internet."  [via Scripting News]  //  :-)