Finally Digg has buried “bury”…
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We’ve replaced the “bury” action with a “hide” action which completely removes that story from your view while logged in to Digg. To hide a story, mouse over the story and then click the “x” that appears in the upper right corner of that item.

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Maybe now stories about GNU/Linux and FLOSS will survive more than a few hours.

M$ is increasing it dividend to shareholders and paying for it with an issue of long-term notes. To pay some of them back they will have to be in business for another 30 years. Do you feel lucky, punk? I would not count on a company with decreasing share and being hated by many customers being in business that long, would you? This could be a high-class Ponzi scheme. Why is a company awash in cash and taking in $billions in sales borrowing money?

Update Today, a nice analysis of how M$’s business is changing from growth to “value” was published. My view is that M$ has peaked and will decline. The monopoly is not sustainable. The dividends will have to be much more substantial just to maintain the current share-price.

Thanks for the link, Richard Chapman.

Pegatron has formed a consortium to produce all-in-one PCs for the DIY (Do It Yourself) market in China. It’s regular customers like HP are not interested in innovation so Pegatron are going around them. OCZ has been pushing a DIY netbook for more than a year. Here’s a review of it. Amazon has some stock and more is on the way. It’s a bit expensive once you add a hard-drive and OS but it might run straight from a USB drive.

There was a time when the USA was considered a special country for innovation and free enterprise. What do we see now?

• USA is 21 countries behind the country giving the fastest typical Internet speed
• East Texas is the home of patent trolls
• Delaware protects trolls like SCOG via lax bankruptcy rules and enforcement
• that other OS is still widely loved, apparently, while global market share continually drops
• OEMs and retailers manage to prop up a monopoly on desktop IT
• you have to work hard just to find a PC with GNU/Linux in a retail store
• software-patents are still respected
• silly rules to protect large corporations from competition abound and are forced on the rest of the world: copyright forever and patents on software

At this rate the USA is rapidly becoming a backwater in innovation, particularly IT. Innovation is now seen as a liability in the USA. Innovating attracts law-suits and start-ups die in court rather than in a free market. USA, the world will not wait for you to get your act together and a welfare-state in innovation will not serve you in the long run. Wake up!

The love expressed in the USA for that other OS is a disturbing sign that the USA accepts mediocrity instead of preferring a product on technical merits. When I was a child, the best of everything technical was “made in the USA”. Now ARM is innovating in the UK. TSMC is innovating in Taiwan and lots of OEMs are innovating in China. What has the USA done lately but force a platform welcoming to malware around the world? M$’s popularity is rising in parts but most of the world sees it as a bully and producer of second-rate software, pretty but rotten to the core. Why does the USA support the monopoly? Historically, the USA supported free enterprise and not kings. What has gone wrong?