October 09, 2001 - License to flame - By Eric Knorr, ZDNET, When I wrote last week's column, an attempt to make the most of Microsoft's shift toward software by subscription, I knew it would be flame bait. Even those who didn't understand the new Software Assurance licensing plan were decrying it. So instead of piling it on, why not try to see the silver lining? Microsoft is very unlikely to back down, because software by subscription is key to its .Net distributed computing model--and Microsoft really has bet the company on .Net. So, I thought, I'll lay out the argument behind the inevitable and watch the sparks fly...

 October 02, 2001 - The war the West cannot fight, Let Islam confront its own demons: America will fight terror - By Michael Moran, MSNBC, LONDON, No people of the 20th century killed with such abandon as the nations of the West — a fact that militant Islamists often cite to justify murders committed in Allah’s name today. Yet the European wars of the 20th century were unlike wars that came before, not spawned by lust for territory, wealth or power. Rather, these were wars of exorcism fought, literally, for the soul of western civilization. But the battle for Islam’s soul is not the West’s to wage; Muslims must exorcise their own demons...