Month: December 1999

A holiday gift from UserLand

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Thanks for the present Dave, sorry I didn’t get you anything but maybe I can send you some traffic. I already have mine Fozbaca.EditThisPage.Com. Go and try it out.

My Handspring Visor Deluxe arrived tonight. Love’n it. There is one little problem when I try to sync with my Win98 machine 98 crashes :(. Still it is soo cool to use. I feel incredibly geeky tonight.

Is free software for windows good?
freshmeat.net brings up the topic and discusses it. True free/open software for windows would be great for all of us stuck in windows world.

TerraTec Presents CD Player for MP3 Files, specs are listed. Visit TerraTec for more details. Oh, price is listed at $499.00, a bit pricy for my taste. It would be cheaper just one of those crappy eMachines and play CDs and MP3s.

SexyMouse
“Intresting” mice and mouse pads, for adults only.

Ralph Nader Bazaar Keynote Suggests New Industry Path

“The ‘maintenance fee’ needs to go. No more breaking backwards compatibility to sell more boxes. If you’ve based your company’s sales on this concept, you need to re-think it as soon as possible. Choose an Open Source business plan, or release ‘fixes’ for no cost.”

World Domination by Eric S. Raymond

“The future of “no domination anywhere” will be a better world; not a perfect one, but perhaps the best that we, working as
designers and programmers, can hope to create. So if you aren’t yet part of our barbarian horde, join us! There’s a lot of
working and playing to be done in order to get from here to there. It won’t be hard to find us; we’ll be the mob yelling “World
domination now!”–and smiling.”

Eric Raymond In The Cab Going to The Bazaar

“Eric: I think that the most important thing is not Linux in itself dominating the world, but Open Source infrastructure dominating the world. Solving the software quality problem. It’s because Linux right now is our most plausible means to that end that I back it.”

Good one Eric. There other OpenSource operating systems. Daemon News covers BSD News for starters.