McSoft settles with Netscape, er, I mean AOL - to the tune of 750 million bucks and some new licensing deals. There's nobody left from either Netscape or AOL to collect the money, so I guess it'll probably go towards paying next year's Sports Illustrated models. Now I was one of the approximately 4000 Netscape employees who were wronged as the result of McSoft's law-breaking. Seems to me I should get about $187,500.00 of that settlement.

Now I'm beginning to understand the deal between McSoft and SCO last week. Recall that SCO owns Unix. They are now claiming that the open-source software movement stole their code to create Linux. And they fully intend to sue any Fortune 500 company that uses Linux for theft of intellectual property. Now we know why McSoft is so interested in AT&T Unix. They're licensing the source so their army of programmers can compare it line for line with Linux and find any potentially stolen code. Hmmm. I'd like to have a look at Windows source code line-by-line. Stolen code indeed.

I was so desperate to make the sale that I neglected to mention something. That's a 300 watt PA amplifier. Those speakers you're buying, the cheap ones - are only rated 100 watts. If you turn up the amp full blast, you're gonna' blow the speakers. Only an idiot would buy these speakers for that amplifier. It's akin to having your own private nuclear power plant to run your Xmas lights. My mistake for not saying something, but calling my customers idiots isn't a good business plan. Today they brought back the amp and both speakers. Everything totally, completely fried. Amp, speakers, everything. Costly mistake. For me. Sigh... And I don't have any others. Just have to refund their money and send them to Guitar Center.