Really interesting article in The Atlantic about efforts to reform the medical information system. One general observation is that the potential of information systems to
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Comcast demanded a “recurring fee” from Level 3 “to transmit Internet online movies and other content to Comcast’scustomers who request such content,” Thomas Stortz, the
Read moreFree and Open Source Licenses
Interesting discussion here. But many FOSS-based transactions are not commercial in the foregoing sense. Instead, software subject to a FOSS license may come into a product
Read moreCorporate Law and Programming State of the Art
Big companies that want to use our software but don’t want to use our standard EULA keep sending proposed sales contracts that include a really
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Two lawsuits provide the frame for The Social Network. One was brought by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, twins at Harvard who thought they had hired
Read moreMicrosoft by the numbers
From correspondent AY: 150,000,000 Number of Windows 7 licenses sold, making Windows 7 by far the fastest growing operating system in history. <10 Percentage of
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NYTimes. But when she was raising money for Crimson Hexagon, a start-up company she co-founded in 2007, she recalls one venture capitalist telling her that
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“When we started releasing data publicly, we measured it in petabytes of traffic,” said Doug Webster, a Cisco Systems market executive who is responsible for
Read moreAn interesting article in ACM communications: is the world ending?
Coverity has a program that reads other programs looking for errors. The company started as a research project from Stanford (how unusual!) and the Communications
Read moreToyota’s problem: hardware weenies and poor accounting practices [updated]
Jamie Kitman’s look at the twisted path Toyota followed to it’s current difficulties inspired me to think about software and money – two topics I
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