Quoteworthy: “If your business is considering a laser printer purchase anytime soon, I’d like to make sure you’re aware of one fact. After a protracted legal struggle, Lexmark has succeeded in getting federal district court sanction to sue its customers if they violate the company’s “boxwrap” license agreement. And, while Lexmark has at least hinted that suing customers is not its intention, you might not want to take the chance.” — Ed Foster, in The Gripe Line. Columnists Corner: What’s more difficult than writing perfect code? Inspiring and managing a large team of programmers to follow suit, writes Roger Grimes in The buzz about fuzzers. Best of the blogs: Jon Udell tells an XML spreadsheet parable, and within you’ll find reasons not to overlook the fundamental benefits of using XML when it comes to office productivity apps. Ephraim Schwartz says that Yahoo’s business ethics are sorely lacking, in Tech Watch. The news beat: The first beta version of Firefox 1.5 is now posted and available for download, chock full of usability, security and privacy features, but a security hole was found in the browser — versions 1.06 up through the 1.5 beta — that makes remote exploit possible. Salesforce.com is set to kick off its user show next week after a year of rapid growth. Now, some good news: US CIOs see an increasing demand for IT skills, and those unemployed IT folks on the West Coast are in the best position to find work because of it.Enterprise apps: Speaking of Salesforce.com, in Conventional software vs. software as a service we weigh the benefits and drawbacks of delivering software via the Web against the more traditional corps of applications. Notes from the field: In perhaps the most shocking column in a long, long time, Cringe takes a vow of celibacy, and voluntarily at that. (I confess to disbelief.) Back in the realm of reality he also dishes out tales of Microsoft honoring worms. Technology Industry