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Platformonomics TGIF #142: October 9, 2026
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email Sigh. News Useful Idiots, Fellow Travelers and Unregistered Foreign Agents: Oracle Part II We really can’t expect Oracle to abide by the spirit or letter of the…
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Hoping for Change: Monetary Policy Edition
Platformonomics does not usually do monetary economics (except maybe the virtual kind), but I just happened to be thinking about the Federal Reserve yesterday (admit it, so were you…) shortly before the news broke of Bernanke’s renomination. I was hoping for a more radical announcement: Software Bot To Be Nominated Chairman of Federal Reserve SystemCutting…
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Less Lobbying, More Bug-Fixing
Attention Mozilla: less lobbying, more bug fixing. Is Safari worth trying on Windows?
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Good for the Goose
Clusterstock goes one better than my totally whacky suggestion of holding Congress accountable for their actions and to the same standards they require from others through explicit fiduciary responsibility: Should we consider imprisoning Congressman who vote the wrong way on such laws as Glass Steagal repealmant. Not reining in Fannie and Freddie. Letting banks keep…
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Back(b)log
A few things I’ve been meaning to blog about: Firefox has become a buggy, bloated piece of code rivaling IE. It now crashes daily. Is there correlation or causation with Mozilla’s increased EU lobbying efforts? Both Firefox and IE disproportionately take the blame for the collection of bugs that is the Flash runtime, which in…
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When is a Netbook Not a Netbook?
Microsoft’s netbook pricing dilemma continues. It is tough to optimize for both unit share and revenue, but my former colleagues in Redmond remain undaunted. In our last installment, I suggested: Starter Edition seems to be dead on arrival (in fact, to go back to a stock soundbite, you can’t spell Starter Edition without the letters…