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
Read moreSocial Network and Lessig
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
Read moreout of the loop in silicon valley
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
Read moreShape of the internet
“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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Computer Science as a failed discipline
(from 2010) I write an email to a CS Prof. asking if they have any followup work on some nice OS measurement research they published
Read moreGreen energy and smart devices
We’re starting to see a confluence between IT and energy that will change both industries. A windmill power data center is an interesting data point.
Read morethe elusive open source business model
In some cases, dominant technology companies have used open-source projects as pawns. Google, for example, has needled Microsoft by providing financial support to the nonprofit
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