1.	Microsoft's developer program takes a hit. Score one for Blue Mountain Arts and their attorney, who are some of the biggest guns in Silicon Valley.
2.	http://www4.bluemountain.com/home/ImportantNotice.html
3.	And a lot of random developers are going to go on vacation until March 18, unless something changes.
4.	Hey, if you know Gary Reback at Wilson Sonsini Godrich & Rosati, please forward this to him. Gary, who I met briefly at an Upside party in the Cole Mansion in Belmont a couple of years ago, please can you ease up on Microsoft for just three weeks, and let them distribute the betas?
5.	Can we work out a win-win here? We're just a little company that got caught in your long-term fight with Microsoft. I bet there are hundreds of other developers who will be hurt by this unfortunate situation.