Month: September 2000

The Audacious Space Elevator a.k.a. “Beanstak”. God I hope to live to see, and ride, one of these babies.

The Audacious Space Elevator a.k.a. “Beanstak”. God I hope to live to see, and ride, one of these babies.

weblogs: a history and perspective

weblogs: a history and perspective

There is a new DaveNet, Denial isn’t just a river in Egypt.

Here’s the message that the music industry appears to be in denial on. Your users want control. They’ve found out how wonderful it is when they can do what they want. Now find a place to fit in.

Bingo users want control and the buisnesses that acknowledge and provide user wants will be the winners in the long run. All the polotical posturing aside, OpenSource is really about user being able to do what they want.

There is a new DaveNet, Denial isn’t just a river in Egypt.

Here’s the message that the music industry appears to be in denial on. Your users want control. They’ve found out how wonderful it is when they can do what they want. Now find a place to fit in.

Bingo users want control and the buisnesses that acknowledge and provide user wants will be the winners in the long run. All the polotical posturing aside, OpenSource is really about user being able to do what they want.

To GPL or Not To GPL that is the question.

… decided that it was wrong for computer algorithms to be patented. He felt that software should follow the genuinely ancient tradition of mathematics, in that discoveries should be considered to belong to the world (rather than the discoverer).