Hook's review of the fate of HB 842.. In the newest issue of Charlottesville weekly The Hook, Courteney Stuart writes about Del. Mitch Van Yahres' efforts to convince the state of Virginia to use open source software through the ill-fated HB 842 (”Back at it: Waldo brings Microsoft… [Waldo Jaquith]

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people are working at least. i wonder if it might be possible to see if there are any associated contributions from the lobbyists mentioned here? wouldn't it be interesting if people and corporations from another state gave money to influence virginia policy….

why isn't your research and writing novel? everyone knows that your work is, but why isn't it? what is its context, from what is it derived, and as such, why isn't it novel?

as a contextualist, i find it hard to say my work is novel, because all of is it is derivative, even my new ideas i view as caused by the relation of other ideas in my head and i usually very quickly see that they are derivative and not necessarily novel. to say that i've necessarily done some great and new for me is to ignore history to some extent. so why is your work novel?