Looking at going to Berlin by car.
All looked hunky-dory for a minute: Car rental is DKK 1.000 for a whole weekend, including insurance. But wait, that only includes 250 km. There are 1.500 km from C…
The Register: Microsoft prepares Mike Rowe legal exit – interesting dissection of Microsoft’s legal and press tactics.
Three noteworthy points:
I have argued here and elsewhere that Microsoft’s pathological competitiveness has created exactly the kind of competition it can’t deal with, in the same way casual antibiotic use creates super-bugs …
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…
