Category — General

Open Source Software economics: “Linux has been around for quite some time, yet Apple came in and created a Unix operating system with a much easier to use and comprehensive UI, becoming the number one vendor of desktop Unix in a few short years. This demonstrates another pitfall of OSS: distributed part-time development on a wide range of projects (many of them competing) does allow for more choice, but it also results in slower progress, and multiple projects with half-implemented features and functionality.” [Universal Rule]

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there is quite a bit to say in regards to open source economics, but this is less economics than social issues….

well virginia tech beat miami, i could still here the low roar of the fans about 2]30 minutes after it was over, though i live about a mile away and my windows face away from the stadium. it's amazing, all that energy could probably change the world, and there it is trapped in a stadium. it makes me think of how real the power must have felt when the roman colloseum was at full tilt.

Interview with the Moor.

Via MaxSpeak comes a link to an excellent interview with Karl Marx conducted sometime in the last month, apparently. Karl has lost none of his vitality, despite having been dead for some time. His analysis is as trenchant as his invective is unrelenting. Who is an “insipid, pedantic, leather-tongued oracle of the ordinary bourgeois intelligence” and who is “so easy to comprehend, so stupendously unoriginal, so devastatingly tautological”? Read it and see.

[Crooked Timber]

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interesting…

Eolas patent challenged by WWW Consortium. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released a briefing document describing their challenge to the web-browser plug-ins and applets patent granted to Eolas Technologies: “The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the global standard-setting body for the Web, has presented… [InternetPolicy.net]

Estovers of common. The Secret History of the Magna Carta. This is a fascinating article on the Magna Carta and the lesser known Charter of the Forest, and the early establishment of the rights of commons. [MetaFilter]

How to make your software engineer cranky. There is one thing that I hate more than being micro-managed… and that's being micro-managed by someone who isn't my… [kasia in a nutshell]

got this one from Dave Barry's blog

You are The Oracle, from “The Matrix.”
Wise, kind, honest- is there anything slightly
negative about you? You are genuinely
supportive of others. Careful not to let people
take advantage of you, though.

What Matrix Persona Are You?
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Proof that I was at AoIR 4.0!. That's my bald head you see here (the really shiny one!): http://aoir.org/2003/pics/pages/audience10_jpeg.htm. There I am, attentively listening to Prof. Pierre… [Technology, Self, & Community]

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yup, hiding behind monica…. i should look over the tape and see if i have any more of marcelo