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On Opensource and the Because Effect

May 9th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Four pillars

Hugh pointed me at William Hurley’s post Seven Reasons Microsoft Loves Open Source. I don’t agree with many of the reasons, but that is not the point of this post. Maybe some other day.
I agree vehemently with one thing William says. In reason 6, he makes the point
Microsoft doesn’t fear open source; it [...]

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On brevity

May 9th, 2007 · 10 Comments · Four pillars

You’re right, this is not something people regularly associate with me; at school, my precis used to start three times the length of the original.
John Howard set a new record for comments on this blog by posting a wikipedia link as his comment. I loved the comment and the link.
It brought a number of other [...]

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Steven King’s 1972 film

May 9th, 2007 · No Comments · Four pillars

[Admit it, you were just about to accuse me of not knowing how to spell his name. But before you do that....]
This post is about a different Steven King, and about a film he produced in 1972, called Computer Networks, the Heralds of Resource Sharing. I’d heard of the film many years ago, in the [...]

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