Month: August 2000

DaveNet: Are you an open source developer?

PS: I see this as exactly analogous to the debate in music between artists and the industry. The artists should define the industry, not the other way around, of course, imho.

PPS: It’s also parallel to the debate in the medical industry, between doctors and the HMOs. Now that software development has been going full force for fifty years, it’s high time that we take responsibility for defining what we do. If we don’t do it, outsiders are happy to do it for us.

Any group, programer’s, doctors, traditional artists, etc, would love to remove the buisness aspect of their art/work as much as posiable. Unfortunately this isn’t really posiably when one is expected to be a “productive” member of a capatolist socitey. It is about time to rethink if the botom line is the only measure of succcess. In medecine the botom line means that most will not recieve the best healthcare. Face it bottom line means he with the most money gets the most.

DaveNet: Are you an open source developer?

PS: I see this as exactly analogous to the debate in music between artists and the industry. The artists should define the industry, not the other way around, of course, imho.

PPS: It’s also parallel to the debate in the medical industry, between doctors and the HMOs. Now that software development has been going full force for fifty years, it’s high time that we take responsibility for defining what we do. If we don’t do it, outsiders are happy to do it for us.

Any group, programer’s, doctors, traditional artists, etc, would love to remove the buisness aspect of their art/work as much as posiable. Unfortunately this isn’t really posiably when one is expected to be a “productive” member of a capatolist socitey. It is about time to rethink if the botom line is the only measure of succcess. In medecine the botom line means that most will not recieve the best healthcare. Face it bottom line means he with the most money gets the most.

Sony exec: We will beat Napster

“Sony is going to take aggressive steps to stop this,” Heckler told the Summer Forty-Niner. “We will develop technology that transcends the individual user. We will firewall Napster at source — we will block it at your cable company, we will block it at your phone company, we will block it at your [Internet-service provider]. We will firewall it at your PC.

I have an idea, how about making technology and services that attract music fans using the internet, like napster does(did), to use music and internet they way you want? The idea that a company or individual can stop traffic, without stopping all traffic, on the internet is absurd.

“And I will firewall Sony at my wallet. ” best slashdot comment.

[via ScriptingNews]

Sony exec: We will beat Napster

“Sony is going to take aggressive steps to stop this,” Heckler told the Summer Forty-Niner. “We will develop technology that transcends the individual user. We will firewall Napster at source — we will block it at your cable company, we will block it at your phone company, we will block it at your [Internet-service provider]. We will firewall it at your PC.

I have an idea, how about making technology and services that attract music fans using the internet, like napster does(did), to use music and internet they way you want? The idea that a company or individual can stop traffic, without stopping all traffic, on the internet is absurd.

“And I will firewall Sony at my wallet. ” best slashdot comment.

[via ScriptingNews]

Migrating from Perl to Python: Objects and Operators

Migrating from Perl to Python: Objects and Operators

SashXB for Linux source code is released. It looks like Sash WDE (Weblication Development Environment) is going to use Scintilla for the text editor.

SashXB for Linux source code is released. It looks like Sash WDE (Weblication Development Environment) is going to use Scintilla for the text editor.

Listen up eBuisnesses “Roughly 86 percent say they think Internet companies should be required to ask users before sharing their personal information with third parties…”

Listen up eBuisnesses “Roughly 86 percent say they think Internet companies should be required to ask users before sharing their personal information with third parties…”