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The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation, imagine what PowerPoint can do to your next presentation.

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Re: Why Stephen King is cool

The issue is them being a gatekeeper, a warden, a centralized force coming between me and the artist. A middleman. The net doesn’t need middlemen. It doesn’t need the overhead, whether financially or logistically. It doesn’t need the inefficiency, whether financially or logistically. There’s nothing to be gained by allowing entities, whether personal, corporate, or governmental, to “intermediate” our transactions online unless they are performing some service that is useful to both parties, e.g. escrow or brokerage.

InterBase has been OpenSourced under a similar to Mozilla.

Re: New Generation?

This new notion is that we may NOT have to do without. Why should we have to do without having a copy of the Magna Carta in our house? We can have it. Easy. Or the compleat works of Shakespeare? Or Milton? Or Hemingway? Or King? Whoops… we crossed a line there. Why? Because King and his publishing house aren’t dead?

Re: New Generation?

Yeah the Kids Are All Right, it’s the old farts that have the rotten values and do the irresponsible things.

How a Hybrid Car Works on Howstuffworks.com, enjoy engel.

The Anti-Mozilla FUD Campaign Continues

Microsoft would especially like Netscape to come out without XUL. It is XUL that changes Netscape from a simple browser, into a hardware-independent platform for Internet applications. XUL delivers some of what .Net only promises, and furthermore, it’s Open Source XUL may be the biggest threat of all to Microsoft’s plans for Internet dominance.

Zero-Knowledge is releasing some code.

Microsoft and Oracle to Hassle Customers: Reason for Open Source

The point ESR and others have made, however, is that the software industry should look at itself as a service industry, not a product industry. The only substantial exception to this is games.

The Ideavirus Manifesto

Microsoft Goes Bonkers with .NET

It almost seems as if Microsoft .NET doesn’t fill a single customer need, it only fills Microsoft’s need to find something for 10,000 programmers to do for the next 10 years. We all know it’s been a long time since they’ve thought of a new word processing feature that anybody needs, so what are all those programmers going to do?