Rick Cattell, Distinguished Engineer at Sun quotes Bob Taylor, manager of Xerox PARC CS Lab: Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If they’re really good ideas, you usually have to cram them down their throats.

I’m reading this report because someone I know, and I have great respect for, Tara Lemmey, was involved in its creation. One thing that’s great and unique about the United States is that groups like this spring up basically on their own, and they produce high-quality work. Whether it will be applied by the powers-to-be…

It has become really fashionable lately to talk about the death of e-mail (even VCs do it, see here). Two major issues, at least in my mind, aren't typically being covered, however: the analogy with usenet, and the impact of market-dominant e-mail clients (aka "what Microsoft, Lotus, AOL and Yahoo could do about it"). This…