White America
Friday, August 23rd, 2002Eminem’s new video is up on the web. The Ren Cen in background is a nice touch.
Archive for August, 2002
Free Speech, Free Beer, and (sogenannte) Free Software
Friday, August 23rd, 2002Simon Phipps of Sun Microsystemsis preaching “Free Speech, Free Beer, and Free Software“,in a transparent attempt tocurry favor withthe Socialist Software Revolutionary Front. While he doesn’t really say much, and seems to be trying to justifySun’s ambivalence to the party line, he does manage torepeat a few of the propagandabuzz-phrases, including “Free Software is about […]
Illegal Dumping
Friday, August 23rd, 2002Cooper amplifies a point that Dave originally brought up — he says that Lessig’s 10-year escrow idea would probably harm most normal ISVs and leave companies like Microsoft stronger. The logic is simple. Microsoft’s biggest competitor is previous versions of Microsoft products, and the perception among customers that a less functional product is “good enough”. […]
What About Lessig?
Wednesday, August 21st, 2002Doc is responding to my claims of Lessig being more like Stallman than like Dave. He says “And on what hard evidence is Larry ‘like Stallman; a collectivist opposed to individual property rights’? And how is Larry not in favor of individual liberty? Facts, please.”
I didn’t even realize that Lessig had been involved with the […]
The Growing Politicization of Open Source
Sunday, August 18th, 2002Tim O’Reilly has clarified his opposition to the CA proposed law requiring California government to use socialist software. He explains that it’s a violation of “Freedom Zero“, the exercise of free will. Dave Winer’s reason for opposition was simpler, “they’re out of their minds.“
It’s funny that we have all of this political activity going on […]