We're all a bit busy - a big chunk of us are at Interop setting up our booth (shameless plug!), and I'm working on taking symposium presentations and making video and multimedia presentations out of them. 

But there are a few interesting articles out there that we thought you'd like to see.

First, Pmarca.com has an interesting rundown of the likely scenarios that would happen if Microsoft tried a hostile takeover of Yahoo!

That's not enthusiasm, shock, or other exclamation.  It's just that I needed to end that sentence with Yahoo! and Yahoo! has the exclamation point in their name.

Secondly, Network World's Steve Taylor talks about the misperceptions of the NOC, a topic which Jim Metzler talked about at Symposium.  You can hear a podcast Dr. Metzler did on the subject here. 

And finally, Richard Stallman stopped by Network Performance Daily to leave a comment on an article which talked about two things: rumored changes in MySQL's open-source status (which turned out to be unfounded), and, as an aside, Dungeons and Dragons. 

Naturally, RMS wanted to talk about Dungeons and Dragons.