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A couple of good stories:

How to hear without listening (Blake Ross talks about why FireFox was created and his intentions.)

I have nothing to gain from gratuitously denigrating IE. Firefox is and always has been about serving users, not crushing competition. It is scary to think what life would be like if I woke up each day thirsting for the fall of another company. If Microsoft hadn’t abandoned IE, there would have been no gap to fill—no user frustrations to tackle—and we probably would not have started Firefox.

But they did abandon it. For four years, and in the face of rampant pop-up ads, viruses and spyware, Microsoft left for dead a browser that hundreds of millions of people rely on.

How old was Blake Ross when Wall Street came out? He must have missed one of Bill Gates’ favorite movies.

Gordon Gekko: It’s not a question of enough, pal. It’s a zero sum game , somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn’t lost or made, it’s simply transferred from one perception to another.

Revenge breeds Revenge (An interview with Michael Berg, whose son died at the hands of Zarqawi)

Well, my reaction is I’m sorry whenever any human being dies. Zarqawi is a human being. He has a family who are reacting just as my family reacted when Nick was killed, and I feel bad for that.

Amazing to consider that this man is often mentioned in the same breath as terrorists. An outcast, in a nation that is supposed to be founded on the principles of the New Testament. We need more people like Michael Berg in positions of power.