In late breaking news, the people at Microsoft may be human.

Dave Stutz, Microsoft's former ambassador to the open-source community, has left the company. He's also posted a note -- "Advice to Microsoft regarding commodity software" -- on his website. It's a short and interesting read on the boat Microsoft is missing, and on the state of shrink-wrapped software's 'slow upmarket ooze'. Dan Gillmor doesn't add much text at his ejournal, but does add a picture of Dan.

Here so what..? I certainly don't care. I thought it was the point of this journal to comment on this stuff. Or did I? I can't seem to remember now. It all goes back to a hoax on the nytimes.forums goodnight.

The government has one, is it time to break it up and privatize space access? A private contracter would possibly lose their contract after such a disaster we've seen today, and wouldn't this help keep them focussed against such things while NASA might become distracted, say with ISS projects?

Oops, thought I added this last night. Anyway, it's dead after several years of arguing within it's carefully crafted genre of computer industry legal news mixed with general debate about the ebb and flow of various computer engineering related markets.