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Ralph Nader Bazaar Keynote Suggests New Industry Path

“The ‘maintenance fee’ needs to go. No more breaking backwards compatibility to sell more boxes. If you’ve based your company’s sales on this concept, you need to re-think it as soon as possible. Choose an Open Source business plan, or release ‘fixes’ for no cost.”

World Domination by Eric S. Raymond

“The future of “no domination anywhere” will be a better world; not a perfect one, but perhaps the best that we, working as
designers and programmers, can hope to create. So if you aren’t yet part of our barbarian horde, join us! There’s a lot of
working and playing to be done in order to get from here to there. It won’t be hard to find us; we’ll be the mob yelling “World
domination now!”–and smiling.”

Eric Raymond In The Cab Going to The Bazaar

“Eric: I think that the most important thing is not Linux in itself dominating the world, but Open Source infrastructure dominating the world. Solving the software quality problem. It’s because Linux right now is our most plausible means to that end that I back it.”

Good one Eric. There other OpenSource operating systems. Daemon News covers BSD News for starters.

Slashdot has a book review Extreme Programming Explained, there is also a companion site XProgramming.com and if you would like to get the book FatBrain is selling it. I have not read it yet but everything I have heard is compelling.

Eric S. Raymond Announces New Book in Progress The Art Of Unix Programming
. The Contents page, (Note: Many of the chapter links don’t go anywhere yet!), Preface (Who should read this book. How to use it. Acknowledgments.)
, and Chapter 1 (Philosophy Matters)

Metcalfe’s Law in Reverse (Alertbox July 1999)
“Current attempts to split the Web into many isolated mini-networks undermine the long-term potential of the
Internet which depends on universal interconnection:”
If ya wanna be on the internet and break down the competition’s doors they will get to do it right back.