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Take some time to read

Take some time to read the roots. Making the Macintosh Home Page lots of good history there.

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Stallman on Qt, the GPL,

Stallman on Qt, the GPL, KDE, and GNOME, a good summary of the road to why Qt is GPL’d and the outstanding issues.

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Stallman on Qt, the GPL,

Stallman on Qt, the GPL, KDE, and GNOME, a good summary of the road to why Qt is GPL’d and the outstanding issues.

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Trolltech to release Qt with

Trolltech to release Qt with GPL Licensing and QPL. Now lets see Gnome and KDE compete on equal footing.

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Trolltech to release Qt with

Trolltech to release Qt with GPL Licensing and QPL. Now lets see Gnome and KDE compete on equal footing.

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Re: Open Blueprint Companies Fog

Re: Open Blueprint Companies

Fog Creek has 6 weeks vacation and believes that programmers should get their own offices with doors (remember doors?). None of my competitors in NYC or Silicon Valley match that. If I “drag the whole market down”, establishing a new benchmark for the kind of work environment that programmers expect, thus losing my competitive “advantage” hiring programmers, I’ll still be overjoyed.

The programers of the world would love you Joe.

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Re: Open Blueprint Companies Fog

Re: Open Blueprint Companies

Fog Creek has 6 weeks vacation and believes that programmers should get their own offices with doors (remember doors?). None of my competitors in NYC or Silicon Valley match that. If I “drag the whole market down”, establishing a new benchmark for the kind of work environment that programmers expect, thus losing my competitive “advantage” hiring programmers, I’ll still be overjoyed.

The programers of the world would love you Joe.

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Rob Levin on RIAA, MPAA

Rob Levin on RIAA, MPAA and purchased law:

The RIAA and MPAA litigation has in common the use of large budgets to pay lawyers to try to prevent code wonks from writing and implementing code which might affect the profits of member companies. It’s a pure case of law being used by special interests to suppress activity with competitive implications.

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Rob Levin on RIAA, MPAA

Rob Levin on RIAA, MPAA and purchased law:

The RIAA and MPAA litigation has in common the use of large budgets to pay lawyers to try to prevent code wonks from writing and implementing code which might affect the profits of member companies. It’s a pure case of law being used by special interests to suppress activity with competitive implications.

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Top 12 things likely to

Top 12 things likely to be overheard if you had a Klingon Programmer
Klingon programer’s responce to Python,

9) “Indentation?! – I will show you how to indent when I indent your skull!”

[via geekish]