WordPress 2.1
I’ve crossed my fingers and switched everything on the site to WordPress 2.1. If you see anything that is obviously broken, let me know via the contact form. UPDATE: Two… Read more »
Lawrence Lessig on Orphaned Works
Few people have given more thought than Lawrence Lessig to the problems created by America’s ever-expanding copyright laws. Here he provides a detailed presentation on the problem of orphaned works… Read more »
The Soul of Some New Vaporware
Tracy Kidder’s The Soul of a New Machine was one of the great nonfiction hits of the early 1980s, a gripping blow-by-blow account of how Data General developed the Eclipse… Read more »
If your product key is stolen, part 2
Woody Leonhard continues to examine the implications of Microsoft’s product activation scheme from Vista and Office 2007. If your product key is stolen, part 2 – Office Watch The obligation… Read more »
What happens if your product key is stolen? – Office Watch
Woody Leonhard discusses the new product activation features in Microsoft Vista and Microsoft Office 2007, which allow Microsoft to remotely disable anyone’s computer at any time if they decide that… Read more »
Why XForms Matter, Revisited
Kurt Cagle argues (and I tend to agree) that the current fashion for AJAX is likely to result in a lot of nasty, unmaintainable code that probably will be full… Read more »
Dems to the Net
For those who were wondering whether the new Congress might be just a little bit friendlier to open-source software, small developers, independent creative types and consumers in general, Lawrence Lessig… Read more »
The End of Web 2.0?
To the horror of many developers Google is abandoning its SOAP Search API. Dave Megginson comments. Is this the beginning of the end for mashups and all the “Web 2.0”… Read more »
LISP in Business
A while ago Ron Garret wrote a widely-read article called Top ten geek business myths. Personally I’m not planning to start a business, but the article contains a throw-away remark… Read more »
The Problem of Open Source in the Microsoft World
Oren Eini asks why .NET has fewer successful open source projects than Java in The Problem of Open Source in the Microsoft World.