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Just south of Silicon Valley, where he toiled for many years as a computer engineer, Tim May is spending his retirement in the picturesque hills of Corralitos, Calif. But he's not there simply for the view. May believes his spot in this rich agricultural and fishing area might spare him the hardships of a famine ushered in with the new millennium, and he's ordering gold coins and laying in food in bulk just to be sure. He's also buying weapons, adding regularly to his growing gun collection. In the coming months, says May, more and more Americans...
...Kings and pizza joints. And, yes, he lives in a house with no wife, no kids, no dog and hardly any furniture. "It's pretty sloppy," he offers. But Unz, 37, does have a hobby: attempting to turn public policy upside down. Over the past eight months, the multimillionaire Silicon Valley software entrepreneur has spent $1.2 million--more than half of it his own money--to pass a ballot initiative that would all but abolish bilingual education in California...
...Netscape always truly doomed? Talk to any successful start-up in Silicon Valley, and you hear the same story, of how one day Redmond comes to visit and makes an offer. "It was like the Mob," recalls Mark Andreessen, the college kid who helped found the company and who, when the boys from Redmond visited Netscape in April 1995, sat there silently transcribing the meeting on his ThinkPad. "It was an offer you can't refuse" is how Andreessen characterized it. His notes, which he turned over to investigators, showed up last week in the Department of Justice's complaint...
Microsoft remembers it differently. Dan Rosen, a top Gates lieutenant who attended the final round of negotiations, recalls the Netscapers as being tense and openly distrustful. He attributes the breakdown to the "culture" of Silicon Valley. "The antibodies floating around in Mountain View were just too powerful to allow even a sensible business deal to blossom," he says...
WASHINGTON: The Federal Trade Commission could file suit as early as this week against chip makers Intel, the Netly News reports. FTC chairman Robert Pitofsky charges that the silicon superpower is withholding vital technical information from its suppliers and competitors. "Our premise is that competition will feed innovation more than monopoly," Pitofsky says...