Fairway's online shopping can't come too soon.
I'm fascinated by for-profits turning into non-profits and vice versa.
The piece doesn't suggest that startups might really want patents because they are a signal to investors. It's a crap reason, and a good reason to change the system since it only costs startups valuable resources at time when they need them, but it's the reason I've seen in the research.
Word. I knew how to get around the NYT paywall and happily bought a subscription. As the author suggests, I like being treated as an adult.
Via Marcel. Interesting looking book by an early Google Brand/Marketing director.
Mark Shuttleworth is trying to recruit engineering managers to Canonical. I agree that the good engineering managers need not be good engineers. I think solid tech skills do go a long way to helping engineers respect their managers. And that is important.
Interesting. But speculation that a report may have existed that implied these things seems like pretty week ammution.
Interesting answer. Also, this is the first time I've actually been referred to something on Quora. So somebody is using it after all!
This has been online for quite some time. I'm really surprised I haven't found this before.
This is the best website I think I've seen introducing academic models to a non-academic context anywhere.
If you're going to be a software counterfeiter, then please copy and illegally use Microsoft products. The above plea isn't from a posting on a hacker forum. Rather, it's how Microsoft business group president Jeff Raikes feels about software counterfeiters. "If they're going to pirate somebody, we want it to be us rather than somebody else," Raikes said.
I believe the number but I think it's not true to say that each C&D letter translates into payment. My general understanding is that these letters are being used as a way of getting ISPs to turn users off, not to extra money directly.
Complicated argument by Eben Moglen on the GPL, competition law, and MySQL.
Nice post mostly about the fact that hosting free network services can be expensive and that self-hosting can be a rather tricky proposition.
Jobs are needed to "to cope with the Windows 7 launch." Sounds about right. ;)
