The Slippery Slope of Foolish Good Intentions

This seriously violates the intent and purpose of open source software, namely freedom from onerous restrictions imposed by the publisher. The slippery slope of telling organizations they can use open source software for some purposes but not others has no limits. What’s next, Wal-Mart can’t use GPU or pharmaceutical companies that animal test, or the [...]

Oracle to Announce Linux Distro Tomorrow

It’s a rumor, and in all fairness my track record on the last couple has not been good, but according to a number of open source industry insiders, Oracle is going to announce at LinuxWorld tomorrow their own branded version of Linux based on the Red Hat distro. Previous speculation had them announcing something at [...]

Another argument for renewable energy

Coming off my earlier post about Khosla’s oil company tax initiative, I thought I would post something that supports renewable energy without prejudice. I found what has to be one of the more interesting cases in favor of renewable energy, and on top of that from a very unlikely place… Iraq.

Commanders have done the math [...]

You can’t google, you have to Google

You kind of have to wonder if this is a case of lawyers gone wild… the fact that “to google” has entered the popular lexicon is nothing if not an enormous branding gift to the company.

Independent Online Edition > Business News:

Search engine giant Google, known for its mantra “don’t be evil”, has fired off a [...]

Blogging tools, not writing about Windows Live Blogger today

Be prepared for 150 posts about Windows Live Writer today on Techmeme… I’m not going to write about it.

However, all the interest in blogging tools made me think to check in on the status of the next version of my favorite blog editor, Ecto. If you were to give me a new computer and [...]

Is the Ballot Box the New VC Model?

I noticed something interesting on a television commercial for Yes on 87, the voter initiative that would tax oil companies in California $4 billion. Check out the “major funding” statement below…

Considering that the aforementioned $4b in taxes will go into a fund for the financing of alternative fuel research, a well known cause for Khosla, [...]

R-mail - just solving a problem

Rick Segal picks up on Randy Charles Morin’s RMail app and makes a couple of observations about the project and the path that Randy has taken. All of Rick’s comments are quite reasonable but I think he missed two very important ones.

First a small personal note, Randy was one of the first people to pick [...]

Appeals court refuses diplomas for 20,000 who failed exit exam

Every once in a while a single sentence can convey such a great deal of common sense that it is worth a moment of silence before continuing to read on. Judge Freedman’s decision concerning the case of 5%, 20,000 students, of California’s 2006 senior class who did not pass exit exams and therefore failed to [...]

whocalled.us

Phil Windley wrote about this service called whocalled.us that identifies telephone numbers when they come up on caller id as “name unavailable”. This reminds me of gethuman.com, the database of workarounds for IVR systems so you can just talk with someone.

Technorati Tags: gethuman.com, Phil Windley, whocalled.us

I Switched to Chocolate

Got a new phone yesterday… an LG Chocolate although I didn’t get Verizon’s phone, I opted for a unlocked handset that I’m using on T-Mobile (because they have such crappy handsets). I’m a sucker for advertising, the Verizon commercial with the big beat and the dripping chocolate covered handset pulled me in, but it was [...]

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