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| Saturday, September 13, 2003 |
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Northwestern bound 
| | That's my sister and my freshly goatéed self, here in Seattle getting ready to set off for Alaska on the latest Geek Cruise. |
| | Not sure about the beard yet, but I do like the way it looks like I only have one chin. |
Carrying on
| | Many markets--including some huge ones--are created and sustained by common goods that are free. Linux is about as far from "communistic" as infrastructure can get. It's something the free market has done with the freedom to make itself larger and more supportive of more businesses. |
| | Linux is free infrastructure, created by participants in the open marketplace. As free market infrastructure, Linux creates many more opportunities than it destroys. That's why the problem for SCO and Microsoft is not that Linux and open source devalue their intellectual properties, but that both companies fail to see obvious opportunities in a marketplace that is open to countless participants and unwelcome to manipulative monopolists and litigious losers |
Question of the Day
| | [Later...] Heh: A reliable source tells me it was called Deanster while it was in still in development. |
Going deep
| | Volokh vs. Sawicky on intellectual property. Making you think, on both sides. |
Shock from the Monkey
The environmental impact of pissing matches
| | The hardest part of making a structural change in patents is the 'bug' of Intellectual Property, This is a Bug and not a feature. See SCO vs IBM. Definition of patents as IP is the basis of a lot of companies wealth for accounting purposes, resulting in the whole cottage industry of IP litigation. The rich get lawyers, we get the shaft. |
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