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Netscape’s folly
Megan McArdle
The loser in the browser wars has filed a private antitrust suit against Microsoft. But the company doesn't deserve to win.
Chained melodies
Damien Cave
Copyright-holding corporations are pushing new laws and computer-crippling technologies in their war on piracy. But can anything keep geeks from copying the music and movies they crave?
Mozilla’s revenge
Andrew Leonard
As the much-touted, long-delayed open-source browser nears the version 1.0 finish line, it may give AOL a new weapon against Microsoft.
Stop. Pay toll. Download.
Damien Cave
Backers of a next-generation multimedia compression technology want to charge a controversial fee -- but instead their plan is fanning interest in free, open-source alternatives.
Waiting for Wi-Fi
Paul Boutin
Outside of airports and Starbucks, the wireless Net is still hanging fire. You can build your own node, but who'll hook you up with the rest of the world?
California scheming
Brad Wieners
"Dot.con: The Greatest Story Ever Sold" is the first good book about one of capitalism's most embarrassing debacles.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond to "Public Money, Private Code" and "A Hardcore Elegy for Ion Storm." Plus: Amory Lovins responds to "Nukes now!"
Praise be to Steve Jobs
Katharine Mieszkowski
The marketing magician strikes again, with a Time cover story singing hosannas to a product on the very day of its public unveiling.
Time’s Person of the Year punt
Eric Boehlert
Choosing Giuliani instead of bin Laden was a clear cave-in to the magazine's business priorities. But the rest of the U.S. press isn't setting a much better example.
New on DVD: OBL
Tom Mcnichol
A high-definition version of Osama's "smoking gun" videotape offers extra footage, amusing bloopers and helpful technical information.
Don’t steal music, pretty please
Paul Boutin
Record companies will make big, big money online. They just need to learn to let go.
Where no geek has gone before
Damien Cave
"Star Trek" fans love to hate Ensign Wesley Crusher, but actor Wil Wheaton is a nerd hackers have come to respect.
The return of Lord British
Wagner James Au
Banished from his own Ultima domains, game designer Richard Garriott is making a comeback, via Korea.
How the music industry blew it
Richard Barbrook
John Alderman's "Sonic Boom" recounts the history of Napster -- and the unstoppable rise of file trading.
Harry Potter doesn’t get “Blue Velvet”
David Thomson
The boy has no profound psychosexual life, which keeps the film from being dangerous -- and important.
Meg Whitman
Loren Fox
The CEO of eBay presides over a company worth more than four times as much as Kmart. Maybe there's something to this e-commerce thing after all.
The war of the wizards
Chris Petrikin
"Lord of the Rings" vs. "Harry Potter"! The inside story of how a pair of AOL Time Warner movie studios are facing off with the two biggest movie releases of the new millennium.
Xbox squared
Wagner James Au
Microsoft's game-box revolution takes the path of mediocrity, while Sony's Playstation seizes the creative high ground.
Andrew Sullivan’s jihad
David Talbot
Since Sept. 11, the British journalist has declared himself the mullah of the media world, sitting in judgment of American writers' patriotism.
Journalist or bride?
Asra Q. Nomani
I get a marriage proposal, get compared to "Hanoi Jane" and plan a trip to Afghanistan on a prayer.
What Salon did last summer
Salon Staff
Death of a dwarf
Patrizia DiLucchio
On the Internet nobody knows you're a dog, but everyone knows if you're a drunken, enraged midget.
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