July 9, 2004
IBM developerWorks: Policy, scourge of the people.
Policy isn't set by a person or a group of people. Policy is a force of nature. No human set that policy. No one had any input into it. It just happened. One day, the CEO came into his office and spied a binder on his desk. He didn't know where it came from. Perhaps it was left by elves.
Scripting News: Yahoo has acquired Oddpost.
Oddpost turned the idea of what you could do with a browser upside down, by producing a clone of Microsoft Outlook in JavaScript and DHTML running in MSIE. Since then, they have labored in relative obscurity, growing a customer base, raising VC money, adding people, and staying out of the way.
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