While Google gets Cerf, MS tries ESR
Right! Right! By now it’s a household news that Google’s hired 62 year young Vint Cerf. Sidharth has dug up an interesting piece on that. But lesser known probably is the bit about Microsoft trying to hire one of the 3 most influential people of the Open Source Movement – Eric S Raymond (Along with
Richard M Stallman &
Linus Torvalds)
. He obviously turns it down as politely as he could - “On the day *I* go to work for Microsoft, faint oinking sounds will be heard from far overhead, the moon will not merely turn blue but develop polkadots, and hell will freeze over so solid the brimstone will go superconductive.”
Google - A House of Cards?
So says Ballmer. He threw a chair to prove his point too!But some Google skeptics (though much fewer in numbers than MS bashers) tend not to disagree as we can read in the comments on John Battelle’s post.Though it is unanimously agreed that Google will have to come up with a parallel product range to hit MS where it really really hurts! Basically – an OS! (neat fakes can already be seen).
America’s ‘Finest’ News Source- No surprises there
Theonion.com, my find for the day is in one word – imaginative. Their cover story today is how Google plans to destroy all information it cannot index. Other stories are equally tongue-in-cheek and very interesting. Today they also announced their site’s new look – “…it is clear that this internet medium is not dying off as quickly as I hope. Therefore (we) have determined that we must continue to exploit it”
