The intellectual property racket must end. Intellectual property laws were designed to promote innovation, not to allow monopolists to stifle it. We have an entire generation that has been taught that new ideas have to be “protectable” to be worthy of consideration. Whatever happened to being faster and better than the competition? Do these companies [...]
With only a couple late nights we pushed out Hayes Beta 2 last night. Thanks Pete. Download now, Release notes. It has a new WEB INSTALLER w00h000!
Poof! No Wikipedia right now. It looks like it’s missing a print stylesheet. Why this would prevent the page from loading, I have no idea. Worse yet, I can’t gloat over MindTouch’s download stats because the SourceForge.net statistics server has been down since 10AM yesterday.
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Mike Tiemann, President of OSI and CTO of Redhat says he's putting his foot down. In a recent blog post he states:
Enough is enough. Open Source has grown up. Now it is time for us to stand up. I believe that when we do, the vendors who ignore our norms will [...]
Yay! IMAP from GOO. Sweet! Why? All my email will now be routed through my Google apps Gmail account and I’ll receive via IMAP. I only use IMAP because I don’t want to lose my email archive and the best way to achieve this with the least effort on my part is by leaving a [...]
First plastic bags, now bottled water; San Francisco is certainly setting an example. Mayor Gavin Newsom signed an order this week banning the use of City funds to purchase single-serving bottled water. -San Francisco Mayor Bans the Bottle (TreeHugger)
Errrg…plastic bags need to be banned! Bottles too. It’s difficult to avoid plastic while shopping. I try [...]
