Fool me once, shame on you… fool me twice, shame on me (DBD)
Defective by design came with a new story on Apple’s DRM. While I don’t generally re-post from other blogs (LWN already does that), this one is special, but not for the apparent reasons. I agree that...
View ArticleComputer Science vs Software Engineering
The difference between science and engineering is pretty obvious. Physics is science, mechanics is engineering. Mathematics is (ahem) science, and building bridges is engineering. Right? Well, after...
View ArticleGoogle+ and the Yahoo-isation of Google
Almost a decade ago I joined Yahoo to work on the search team. At that time, Google was giving Yahoo a hard time with their amazing search, while Yahoo was mostly based on directory search and some...
View ArticleScience vs. Business
Since the end of the dark ages, and the emergence of modern capitalism, science has been connected to business, in one way or another. During my academic life and later (when I moved to business), I...
View ArticlePost-SOPA-protest, what’s on?
So, the day has ended and we’ve seen many protests around the world. Did it help? Well, a bit, but don’t hold your breath right now. European citizens are still being sued by the American government...
View ArticleEventually everyone wants to be AOL
After a good week battling against SOPA, it’s time to go back to real life, to battling our own close enemies. As was reported over, and over, and over again (at least in this blog), Google is dragging...
View ArticleIn the future…
In the future, people will be able to project three-dimensional films using holograms. These holograms could be placed among us, rather than at a stage, to give us a much better sense of reality and...
View ArticleOpen Source and Innovation
A few weeks ago, a friend (Rob) asked me a pertinent question: “How can someone innovate and protect her innovation with open source?”. Initially, I scorned off with a simple “well, you know…”, but...
View ArticleOpen Source and Profit
I have written extensively about free, open source software as a way of life, and now reading back my own articles of the past 7 years, I realize that I was wrong on some of the ideas, or in the state...
View ArticleOh, you want support?
I don’t know how many open source communities have the same problem, but in the LLVM list we do receive more than a few emails a year with people really upset that no one has fixed their bugs quick...
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