Visting LinuxWorld in San Francisco reminded me that one of the advantages Apple has in the cell-phone market is that it can set design goals
Read moreNet neutrality and real-time
British Telecom breaks with the party line. This is the intersection of a business/political dispute about what business telecos should be in and a technical
Read moreTransaction costs are good: software patent debate continues
Don Marti is asking the wrong question when he writes: The question is where you draw the line of what is or isn’t patent infringement.
Read moreEnterprise operating systems
Can anyone name a single feature of “enterprise†operating systems available today that was not already working in VMS or Solaris or SGI’s system 10
Read moreSoftware patents are so different from circuit patents (really!)
Updated (and again, and even again – below) It should also be recognized that circuit arrangements are typically designed and fabricated at least in part
Read moreOperating system interfaces are what you bump into…
Operating system interfaces are what you bump into when you are trying to do your work. There is no need for workaday users to see
Read moreAdding value to Windows
Andy Bechtolscheim says: It’s really hard to add value to Windows. Whatever you add, Microsoft is going to take away from you. Linux has opportunities.
Read morePlagiarism watch
Thanks to google code watch I see that an open source real-time Linux project has reached new heights of originality – changing the magic number
Read moreThe Embedded Enterprise, Pruit-Igoe, Ayn-Rand, the telecommunications stack and why software does not suck
Programmers will readily tell you that “Windows sucks” or “Linux sucks” or “POSIX sucks” why this or that software is badly designed, bloated, slow, buggy,
Read moreBack from India
We were going into a government facility in Mumbai, and the guard points at me and asks, as if finding it hard to believe “He
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