In the past, nondisclosure agreements were used to protect companies from having ideas stolen. Now they are used to manipulate the media. The company has always been a follower. The company only toys with original architecture, instead of being original. If you are a small business or individual who cannot afford Microsoft Office Suite, you can download three modules of a new suite that has appeared from Software602.
Every day there is some hot new bandwidth announcement.
The magic of Silicon Valley has always come from free job hopping. This makes for a faster uptake of intellectual equity. Kill this and you may kill the Silicon valley phenomenon. This tells me that Transmeta is on to something. Much industry action seems to be surrounding the WAP phone and how it is going to be the primary way many people will surf the Web.