Gripe Line: What happens when an LCD monitor advertised as having optional integrated speakers actually has no such capability? Well, if you’re a Samsung 225BW buyer, that answer, I’m afraid, is not much. Other than a whopping headache, perhaps. “It’s quite frustrating when the manufacturer essentially tells you take a hike without even changing its erroneous product description,” Ed Foster reports in Samsung option is imaginary. The problem is that, even though there are clips on the monitor’s back for them, said speakers just don’t exist, as one reader learned. Samsung pointed to a retailer, but it didn’t have them either. “It truly is inconsiderate to suggest what would be a waste of time on a goose chase,” the reader explains. Open source: In Funding FSF’s fight vs. Microsoft, Savio Rodrigues points out that the Free Software Foundation does not exactly have deep pockets. At least not when compared to the likes of Microsoft. “The FSF will need significantly more donations if the GPLv3 debate makes it to the courtroom,” he cautions.Columnist’s corner: Given his first project as a lead, our Off the Record author came up against an ostensibly insurmountable dilemma. “Management felt I spent too much time talking to end-users, implying any time talking to them was too much.” No team, no staff, no hope. The end-users were tickled to get a system they could really use.” This labor of vindication ballooned into a dozen programs that our author worked around the clock to complete on time — and alone. “Then the troubles came.” Careers: Coming up with good ideas is easier than planning, organization and execution, Bob Lewis asserts in Where are the box’s boundaries? “A healthy organization should generate at least an order of magnitude more good ideas than it’s in a position to pursue. It’s the organizations that have shut off the spigot that concern me.” Technology Industry