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Doctor Fun: So Who is Quido Van Rossum?

Tomb Raider Film Cast and Crew Announced
Angelina Jolie to play Lara Croft.

Screenshot of an Aqua skin for Mozilla.

Remember the highschool shootings in Paducha there were, in part, blamed on Doom? Well the Lawsuit Against id Software Dismissed check out the .plan. On a related note, Amazon customer reviews on Lt. Col. David Grossman’s Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill. The whole “video games made me do it” reminds me of the PMRC rating and banning music from the 80’s. Both ideas are so overly symplistic in answering the great question “what makes one do violent acts” as to be meaningless. Maybe some of those with the arguments should look at the whole complex picture.

DarwinOS.org

A Patently Better Idea

“Say Gilmore comes up with a atentable software notion. Under his license, ‘Anybody who has no patents is free to use my ideas,’ he says. ‘Anybody who has patents and licenses them on these terms, or better, can also use them free of charge. Otherwise, come talk to me about a license’ — and bring a checkbook.”

Duck! Here comes another beta: The Browser Wars Are Back

April Fools!
A list of some of the Linux related April Fools articles.

My Sidebar Developer’s Guide
How to add coolness to those Netscape 6, and Mozilla, sidebars.

Apple Releases Darwin 1.0 Open Source
New Mac OS Core and QuickTime Streaming Server Released to Tens of Thousands of Developers