FTC seeks courts battle with Toysmart- – Jul. 10, 2000
The FTC voted unanimously in a closed session on Friday to seek a preliminary injunction against Toysmart, majority-owned by the Burbank, Calif.-based Walt Disney, to prevent the Web retailer from selling names, addresses and buying habits on thousands of customers who used the site, the Journal said.
What’s that, a federal group is trying to make a corporation follow through on it’s promises. Go get’m FTC.
The Linux Advantage: Locking Out the Lock-in Artists
This is just sick A Model Employer, a story of doing buisness in China. It is pretty sad when a buisness person wants to Do The Right Thing(TM)but is told not to.
Patently Mythological, debunking some of the myths surounding patents.
Deep Dark Truthful Mirror – I Hold These Truths to be Self-Evident….
nyone expecting to see the elimination of all closed-source software from the commercial market is just as delusional as the people who think open source is a fad that will disappear quicker than a dot-com’s VC funding. The two camps will coexist for a very long time, and they should accept that fact as soon as possible.
and the world is not a perfect place but one can hope for a better future.
Free Software as appropriate technology
Imagine you are putting water pumps into a village somewhere in Africa. You have a choice between two products:
W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
Added to my to read list: Building an Online Community