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IBM offers free tool for writing Linux software

A team of IBM summer interns has created a free, new tool that eases the task of writing Linux-based software.

But where are the Linux downloads?

The Future Depends on What We Do Now brings up good points but no solutions.

Mozilla.org puts browser to work as word processor

A new group dubbed MozOffice wants to accelerate the convergence between PC-based software applications and the Web with a blueprint for a new browser that would incorporate functions such as word processing.

Not sure if this a good thing or not. Just hope that it doesn’t delay a Mozilla 1.0 release.
Eventully location of www.MozOffice.org

DaveNet: Software and the First Amendment

There is no difference between code and writing. I think I can prove it. Manila, the content management system that I use, supports macros. When you put text in curly braces, as the page is rendered, the macro is evaluated. Such macros can be embedded in protected speech, ie prose. What goes inside the curly braces is program logic. So if I want First Amendment protection for my code all I have to do is embed it in a Web page.

Source code should be a protected form of speach, as in free speach protection. Nuf said.

“WIRM is a Perl-based application server that provides a high-level programming environment for developing web information systems. The WIRM consists of an object-relational database and a suite of Perl interfaces for visualizing, integrating and analyzing heterogeneous multimedia data. WIRM provides facilities for creating context-sensitive views over a multimedia database, allowing developers to rapidly build dynamic web sites that adapt their content and presentation to multiple classes of end-users.”

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Thrilling News: King Finds Honesty Pays Off on Internet

King’s office said that enough readers have either paid or promised to pay–roughly 76% of those who downloaded–that he will post at least the second installment of his serialized novella “The Plant” in three weeks.

I’m shocked. King has some loyal fans. Requiring 75% of downloadies to pay or the next chapter will not come out is a very high percentage. If this continues given the loyalty of King’s fans and his ability to churn out the words publishing electornicly maybe more profitable than dead trees for him.

An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming in Python

A Personal Report on the 4th Open Source Conference

Winer respones to Napoli on Napster

Do I expect to get paid for the work I do? The answer, sadly, is no. That’s because I choose to be creative and honest, and writing software is even less appreciated an art than being a musician. I could take a job as the CEO or CTO of a slimy dot-com startup and promote non-existent software and bribe reporters for good press coverage. I’ve had a few offers, but I turn them down with such gusto, the offers have stopped, which is OK with me. I choose to have integrity in the work I do. I also choose to write software. So money has to take a back seat. (She didn’t ask if I’d like to get paid, the answer is an enthusiastic yes!)