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IP: Maybe we need a corporate death penalty: FYI, two recent columns:
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 15:45:39 -0400
From: "Gillmor, Dan" <DGillmor () sjmercury com> To: "'farber () cis upenn edu'" <farber () cis upenn edu>
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/opinion/dgillmor/dg052301.htm Maybe we need a corporate death penalty
It's worth asking that question in the wake of the stunning news Tuesday that Avant!, its chief executive, Gerald Hsu, and six current or former executives had copped to criminal behavior. The bottom line was simple. These guys had created a computer-aided design company with software code they stole from the company several had recently left, Cadence
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/opinion/dgillmor/dg052501.htm To understand what Moore's Law really means, think smaller, faster and cheaper. And because of that, think everywhere.
To understand what Moore's Law really means, think smaller, faster and cheaper. And because of that, think everywhere. In the late 1970s, Gordon Moore walked around his Los Altos Hills home, looking at various objects. How many, he wondered, would benefit from having microprocessors added to them? About 85, concluded the co-founder of Intel, who retired Thursday from the board of directors of the chip-making giant. When he repeated this home-computing exercise a few years later, he found lots of others, including devices that hadn't been invented the first time. ``It went further than I ever could have imagined,'' he said during an interview at Intel headquarters in Santa Clara, near the end of a long day that included his last meeting as a board member, a news conference and a slew of interviews. For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/
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