Dell’s Software License Policy: A very entertaining real-life story about Dell’s computers requiring you to agree to licenses, the text of which they do not provide!
Two different Dell representative…
Mark Hurst is impressive. Now with This Is Broken, a complaint box that lets you send in your frustrations over everyday things. What a great idea, and cool to see it pick up like that. Mark has a def…
NY Times: Whatever Will Be Will Be Free on the Internet.
What all this means for the future of intellectual property, and some businesses, is as unpredictable as the open-source revolution itself. In …
Economist: Microsoft at the power point.
Government purchases of software totalled almost $17 billion globally in 2002, and the figure is expected to grow by about 9% a year for the next five years, a…
I read about the new DC 9/11: Time of Crisis in the paper this morning, and it does sound like a somewhat disturbed flick, so I wanted to learn more about it and went to Google.
The top hit for DC 9/…
Perens and Raymond has written an open letter to SCO.
SCO taxes IBM and others with failing to provide warranties or indemnify users against third-party IP claims, conveniently neglecting to mention t…
Clay Shirky: Fame vs Fortune: Micropayments and Free Content. Another compelling piece by always hard-hitting Shirky on why micropayments will never work.
The people pushing micropayments believe tha…
Very nice basic introduction to computers by my friend and co-worker Joel.
Greg Lehey has put up his analysis of the SCO code. (Thanks to Mark for the link.)
