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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (22324)	1/4/1999 12:13:00 PM
From: Jay Rommel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Hello Daniel, Happy New Year ... Glad to know you're still on the thread. We got 16-24 inches of snow here in Chicago, How much did you Cheeze heads get??? The record here is still the blizzard of 1967, but I wasn't alive to verify that ... However, I do remember the 1979 blizzard. BTW, I'm sure some oldtimers hare are interested ... Harmond is making a killing with the i-nut stocks ... AMZN, YHOO, etc.

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (22324)	1/4/1999 1:15:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

A Surge in Popularity of Software That Unlocks the Code nytimes.com As an old preacher of the "open" gospel, I have to say that this front is a lot more heartening than anything I can see happening on antitrust, entertaining though the latter topic may be. The seers of 1997 had the computing trends of 1998 pretty much nailed down -- the Justice Department's antitrust challenge to the Microsoft Corp., panic over the Year 2000 bug and Wall Street's infatuation with Internet stocks. Unforeseen, however, was one of the year's most striking developments: The surging popularity of what has been called open-source software -- probably because it had long been regarded by the industry's most powerful players as more of a political ideology than a way to make money. Open-source software provides every computer user with free access to the software's source code, the actual lines of commands that the programmers wrote to create the software. Publishing this code offers users who are programmers the chance to examine it, to fix bugs or inefficiencies or to suggest improvements. Once widely denigrated by commercial developers as chaotic programming by committee, open source is now expected to come into its own this year as a business model, with potentially far-reaching consequences for developers and consumers of computer software. Some analysts predict that the growing availability of open-source software will push industry prices down. Others forecast higher quality by both proprietary and open-source products, driven by a new competition. Beats me, but it has to be good for everybody but Bill that NT2K (er, make that Win2000) the OS for the next millennium, is no longer seen as the inevitable and only possibility for computing in the future. Then again, NT2K would have been good for employment, it takes a village to keep it running. . . Cheers, Dan.