IP: Maybe we need a corporate death penalty: FYI, two recent columns:

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>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.




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