As I write this it's hard to get away from Goldman Sach's latest gloomy predictions about the IT economy. The last outlook, in Octover 2003, called for a two to three percent increase in 2003. The new outlook forecasts one percent decline. None of the stories -- not in Reuters, The Register or Infoworld contained so much as a single link back to the Goldman. Two of the three linked to Computerwire, the source of the story.

I just spent about ten minutes looking around the Goldman site for any sign of the story: a press release, a free research abstact, something. I found nothing.

• they;kll have to repeat what they did with gcc. In the nextstep days they took a snapshot of GCC and forked. Now they're trhying not to repeat the experience of integrating

Webcore

The webmaster angle. standard html. only obligation is to distro corresponding source to anyone you give the binary to. difference is that lgpl allows you to link together a compiles whoole that conetains lgpl but not distribute for the whole . only have to distribute

how close will khtml and moz be in standard support?

fari use engine .

them using khtml in the browser raises it up a bar. how they do it from here on out will reallly raise the bar. this is much more out in the open. here's this thing staring millions in the face that apple is calling open source. There's a love fest between the KDE and apple people. The press can ask better questions. they;kll have to repeat what they did with gcc. In the nextstep days they took a snapshot of GCC and forked. Now they're trhying not to repeat the experience of integrating

tab browsing with chimera and mozilla

fromthe apache perspective it's been a good relationshp so far.l open ssl bug I got to watch that one happen in real time behind the scenes,. the timing form when h=apache had the fix and made the announcement.

the open source components include webcore and javascript core. The latter has been out a

allows you to have a barrier within the final proeduct with free and proprietary. confusing reqs about what;s on the line

web standards interoperability no longer game over. better adhere to standards. you might have to fix your

They hired the Chimera guy. You have not one but two people who knew the

Two years ago at Macworld, Steve Jobs introduced the first (and probably the last) titanium-clad laptop. This week he introduced the next generation in Apple's light metal series: two aluminum-bodied laptops; one with the footprint of a placemat and another small enough to shelve with your paperbacks. He also launched a new browser, a new presentation program, an iPod ski jacket that cost more than an iPod, and various changes and upgrades to the company's growing suite of "i" apps (iTunes, iMovie, etc.) -- most of which are free-as-in-beer. Among other things.