Torvalds, after telling us to come back when there are more than one or two kernel hackers complaining, said, “Basic rule of thumb: on the internet, anybody can complain. And people do. Whether it has…
Newsforge: IBM on leaked memo: Nothing to see here. Move along…. I tend to believe that there is a push to move to Linux on the desktop, but hat they’re too afraid of the reaction to talk openly about…
For those following this space, but not the other, I just wanted to let you know taht I’ve started blogging much more intensively over at Collaboraid’s Developer Blog on my thoughts and work on the Op…
Stallman started GNU 20 years ago yesterday. He writes in Newsforge: The Free Software Community After 20 Years: With great but incomplete success, what now?.
Steve Gillmor: Best and Worst of Messaging & Collaboration in ‘03. RSS, Technorati, and friends take up a very large share of the best list.
The Economist: The internet in a cup (subscription required).
Nice story about how coffee houses used to be the place to meet for scientific or political discussions, planning a revolution, buying an…
Clay Shirky: The RIAA Succeeds Where the Cypherpunks Failed – as always, Shirky puts things in perspective. The comparison of the RIAA’s current approach to music file sharing to prohibition sounds ab…
Hartvig is using IT university students to do usability studies of Umbraco. Would be really good to do the same for OpenACS. Dalager, do you think you could help organize something (next semester, mos…
Thanks to Malte, Guan, Vanessa, Joel, Peter, Simon for a nice, productive weekend adding some new features to the OpenACS blogger application. It’s starting to be really slick. I can’t wait to upgrade…
MS Fact sheet by the Lindows (and mp3.com) guy, Michael Robertson. Not particularly new, but still accurate.
