Fiction by my friend Stephanie Gayle.
Wiki to help people compare one thing with another. The MySQL and Postgres comparison is particularly awesome.
Interesting exploration of dual licensing of free software and their effects.
Awesome new interface to the MIT library -- but moves power away from MIT which is sketchy.
"This is a boilerplate answer to the "help me get started with Linux" mail that I seem to get a lot of. You need three things to get started with Linux, and only the last one is a computer with Linux on it. So pay attention to the first two."
"Benkler attributes their success to ways they have found to assure contributors that when you produce you will be able to control what you produce. Cash doesn’t change hands. The challenge is to learn about human collaboration in general from these web-based examples. In Benkler’s words “replacing Leviathan with a collaborative system.â€"