Blue Security Shoots Itself, And Others, In The Foot
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Blue Security is replying to automated mail with automated mail, which is requested in the message. Since the mail is requested, I cannot see it as a denial-of-service attack; it doesn't prevent service. It does cost spammers a bunch of revenue when they get back as much spam as they send. --David LeVine

It's justified. If the government can't and won't do anything about spammers, then the local militia need to take action. --John Cummings

Microsoft To Google: Size Does Matter
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Google is just another Microsoft when it comes to innovation. It has invented a few small things here and there within its core functionality, but even its core business (Internet search) is an attempt to improve on someone else's ideas (Lycos, AltaVista, Yahoo, etc.) --critique

Google has been successful for one reason--when it started out it gave you pure search that really worked. Now that it has grown up and is greedy just like everyone else, that competitive advantage is gone. Its user base is enormous because its search results used to be relevant--that's rapidly changing as its search words increasingly go out to the highest bidder. --William Schraeder

Open Source: Who Takes But Doesn't Give Back?
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Chase Phillips is right when he suggests folks in big companies are constrained by intellectual property: My department released internally developed code to an open source project out of a desire to give back, but getting the required approvals took nearly as much effort as writing the code in the first place! --Matt Healy