The Mike Abundo Effect

In anticipation of Bill Gates’ and Steve Jobs’ first onstage appearance together in ten years, I bring you their most heated encounters as depicted in the 1999 docudrama Pirates of Silicon Valley.

This is going to get nasty.

As if threatening Linux users for royalties wasn’t silly enough, Microsoft won’t even say how they came up with any basis for their threats.

Q: What kinds of tools/processes did Microsoft use to determine which open-source code allegedly infringes on Microsoft’s patents?

A: No further details are available at this time.

Oh. Wow. So they say people are stealing from them, but they won’t say how they know this. Riiight.

Much like Google’s front page search box, their new tagline hides a great synergy in its simplicity: Search, ads, and apps.

Remember Google’s mission statement: Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Much of the world’s information is Long Tail content. Apps produce Long Tail content, search taps Long Tail content, and ads monetize Long Tail content. It’s a powerful cycle. Good thing their motto is Don’t be evil, eh?