XML/XSL Portal has lots of good stuff, none of which I have time to try out yet. A small sample:
Andrew Orlowski of The Register:
"Every one of our competitors tries to sell technology to customers," he paused - "... but not one of them gwana-gwana-gwana-gwana"
He didn't say that - that's just what it sounded like. In fact he said: "... but not one them meets customers needs for an end-to-end solution." The gwana-gwana was the result of my attention wandering for a moment. How long? I don't know. A few seconds, I guess....
Now, meeting your customers' needs is a laudible aim, roughly on a par with the goal of not crashing your car on the way to work in the morning. It's hardly necessary to say, and even less necessary to report.
A brief history of Unix:
During this long hiatus, when what was by then FreeBSD could have been dominating the free software world, Linux came into the vacuum. We all knew we needed a free Unix clone with source code and, since BSD wasn't available, we took Linux. It wasn't really Unix, and it had "this funny GPL thing" attached to it, but it was close enough.