“A day is coming, when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whisky, or any other of the necessaries
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Economics of Free Software
Fate has made me the “money guy” for OpenSSL so I’m going to talk about that for a bit. As has been well reported in
Read morePaying for music
Streaming services rely on a weird conceit, but it’s not a new one. Like record labels, these companies can’t exist—they literally have no product—without musicians.
Read moreFree software and newspapers
Folks who decry the idea of subscriber fees argue that paywalls won’t work, and that those who advocate for them, don’t understand the Internet. The
Read moreRichard Stallman speaks
A supply of tea with milk and sugar would be nice. If it is tea I really like, I like it without milk and sugar.
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 moreSuns tracking SGI
IBM dropped its offer to acquire Sun for $7billion. Sun has now a series of projects for which it has large costs, but no clear
Read moreSoftware comes from the sky and labor is overpaid: NOT!
John Dvorak concludes an otherwise sensible article on the effect of Linux/Office-clone packages combined with netbooks with the following: If Intel can provide users with
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