I’m a big fan of Google’s Summer of Code program — it’s brought a lot of new developers to the Subversion project,
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Score: Bush message machine, 1; New York Times, 0
No doubt this was just an accidental slip by a photo caption editor on autopilot, but still it’s disheartening to
Continue readingDoes Microsoft’s Horacio Gutierrez lie, or does he just not know?
Microsoft recently claimed that open source code (in particular the Linux kernel) violates 235 of Microsoft’s patents. It’s not clear
Continue readingBen Collins-Sussman on hacking and hackers.
[Blogcheck alert, blogcheck alert!] So what’s the blogiquette take on writing a post that’s essentially a link to another post
Continue readingHow to tell that software patents are a bad idea.
I’ve written elsewhere about how software patents harm software development. This article is about how there’s very little corresponding benefit
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