* Posts by James Blake

2 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Sep 2007

Cometh the hour, cometh the iPhone SDK

James Blake

Jobs already said free apps are distributed for free

"though it may lose a fair bit of freeware that way on the principle of the thing - but the company isn't really interested in freeware..."

Jobs mentioned in the announcement that freeware apps will be displayed and distributed completely free so I think Apple is really interested in freeware. In fact Jobs went out of his way to point out that freeware is what would stimulate more interest in the platform.

SCO faces financial crunch after Unix defeat

James Blake

McBride will end up as the CEO of some other startup

The shocking thing is that when the dust settles and SCO are left a smoldering ruin of what the company used to be, the person at the helm of SCO during this disastrous period, Darl McBride, will be appointed by some venture capitalist as the CEO of some other poor unsuspecting organisation.

It amazes me what passes as 'success' in Silicon Valley.