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7 June 2006 165 Comments

GPL Licensing: Find Your Way Through this Mess

Every so often in open source circles, the issue of the GPL (General Public License) comes up. Most open source projects are released under this license as it allows for the freedom of open source and freely distributed source code, with the adequate protections of law.
Essentially, the GPL says that by recieving a GPL [...]

27 May 2006 84 Comments

Can A Web Programmer Make a Living Programming?

I’ve been writing code for the past 6 years. In certain areas (PHP, MySQL), I consider myself beyond proficient and more in line with “fluent”. Other areas I have no real experience: Ruby on Rails, .NET, Java.
For most of those 6 years, I’ve freelanced with the thought that if I could jusst generate [...]

26 January 2005 4 Comments

The UNIX Crystal Ball

I’ve had an uncanny ability (through no virtue of my own) to fairly accurately predict events in technology. In 1991 I looked at my wife and told her that very soon the Internet was going to explode, and people were essentially going to be making money for breathing. (bubble) Next, i predicted [...]

6 December 2004 2 Comments

More in the Spirit of Microsoft Bashing

Commenter Sarah tells IMAO:
They say if you play a Microsoft CD backwards, you hear satanic messages. Thats nothing, because if you play it forward, it installs Windows.
Lovely. Just lovely. :)
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27 November 2004 2 Comments

$100 Open-source PC

Microsoft executive, Steve Ballmer, challenged the computer industry to manufacture a $100 computer last month. The industry responded with open source, which I don’t think was what Ballmer had in mind.
The unit is intended to be used as a platform for education and economic development in third world countries and, unfortunately will only be distributed [...]