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Freedrive closes public storage space. Along with Napster, that’s a nail in the coffin of free software. But what about the argument that code is speech, and hence “free speech”?

Wouldn’t mind investing in Israeli tech stocks. But we’ll have to wait for FEMA to replace FERA.

The MouseDriver Insider: life at a startup.

Recession.
Daimler Chrysler slashes 26,000 jobs.
Disney cuts 400.
Amazon may have cut 20%.
It isn’t nice (1
2).
But dot-coms might still do well, since software, labour and real-estate
costs will start falling?

Investors are smart. Disney kills Go.com. Stock rises. Sega kills Dreamcast. Stock rises. Lesson: kill it if it won’t work.

Investor Guide: pretty good on news.

zeroTV: good TV-like entertainment for free. World Bank’s B-SPAN has World Bank seminars online. Yeah, the computer is becoming the TV.

Nasdaq will open in Bangalore.

Recession?
GM shuts 14 plants.
Boeing: 1 plant.
AMC: 548 theatres.
WorldCom lays of 10-15%.
HP: 2%.
Delphi & Visteon: 10,300.
Lucent: 10,000.
Sara Lee: 7,000.
JC Penney: 5,000.
AOL: 2,000.

An extraordinary animated spoof of Mohabbatein.