At FOO Camp this weekend, I attended an impromptu gathering convened by Danese Cooper and Michael Tiemann, both of whom are
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Embarrassment-based health care.
Blue Cross Blue Shield Horizon of New Jersey has contributed an interesting new proposal to the national health care debate:
Continue readingKeepin’ it real for the Google Summer of Code students.
I’m a big fan of Google’s Summer of Code program — it’s brought a lot of new developers to the Subversion project,
Continue readingScore: 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
Continue readingHelp spread the “search://” meme!
How often do you find yourself writing an email in which you tell someone to do an Internet search? If
Continue readingDon Imus comes out against freedom of speech.
Brief background for those who haven’t been following this particular bit of theater: The radio commentator Don Imus, while watching
Continue readingA Modest Proposal: How to Make Everyone Happy About Lesbian and Gay Marriage
The debate about lesbian/gay marriage has reached a stage of pure symbolism: many people are now comfortable with the idea
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