Apparently, the very idea of Microsoft speaking about “shared source” has terrified some of the open source zealots. Stallman is deliberately confusing the issues by implying that speech from Microsoft must by definition be anti-open-source; or that “open source advocacy” must by definition be anti-Microsoft.
The organizer is for now resisting the pressure to censor [...]
Ari Pernick reviews the recent “why the death tax is good” presentationon campus. I saw the presentation, and am somewhat sympathetic to the arguments. Miguel also reviews a recent presentation by Robert Fisk, pointing to this interview where Fisk claims that the job of a journalist is to monitor sources of power.
The general premise of [...]
Anita Rowland is recommending a favorite Pho place in Seattle. It’s a good place. Pho is perfect for these cold, gray winters we have. Just in the past two years, it seems like the number of Pho places here has tripled, and now I’m always within ten minutes of a great bowl of soup. Too [...]
San Francisco Chronicle is reporting on TimBL’s speech to NSF. The article makes a few implications which I think are misleading but common. First, the title “could improve web searches”really misses the point. You could have said the same about the original WWW, and one imagines a 1992 San Francisco Chronicle article headline heralding “CERN [...]