Juan J. Martínez used to talk here about Open Source and Other Things.
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July 15, 2010
June 29, 2010
Supreme Court: "business method" and software patents OK
Bad news about Bilski case. Or may be it was just too many expectations, because, at the end, Supreme Court isn’t as invulnerable to lobbies as we wished.
Money’s talking.
Update: Software patents after Bilski by Peter Brown (FSF).
June 8, 2010
"Let’s try an experiment. Think of a project you use all day. Maybe it’s Rails or Python or something. Now, name 4 people on the core team without looking them up. I can’t do that for anything I use."
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From There Are No Famous Programmers, by Zed A. Shaw.
Man, sadly I agree: there are not famous programmers.
I can remember once, I was having a coffee with a good friend and I started to comment the new OpenBSD weblog (undeadly, back in the days!), made in C (werid) by one guy. I remember saying: “You may know that guy, he’s Daniel Hartmeier”.
That was an awkward moment. Even explaining he programmed OpenBSD’s Packet Filer (the first initial version, at least), it didn’t help at all.
So, if you’re a programmer, no matter how good you are. You’re not likely to be famous. Let’s face it.
April 23, 2010
"There is no such thing as “putting a work in the public domain”, you America-centered, Commonwealth-biased individual. Public domain varies with the jurisdictions, and it is in some places debatable whether someone who has not been dead for the last seventy years is entitled to put his own work in the public domain."
— From Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License (via @MarcosBL timeline).
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