Archive for August 16th, 2006
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Wednesday, August 16th, 2006+ I don’t get it: France to lead Lebanese Peackeepers. Given France’s history in Lebanon (a colonial occupier that once imprisoned the entire Lebanese government), is that really a good idea? + Definitely not evil. In keeping with its corporate creed, “Don’t be evil,” Google “has begun offering free, high-speed internet access to everyone in [...]
Open Source Revolution
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006From The World is Flat, by Thomas Friedman: On the development of Apache, the original “open-source” (where traditional trade secrets — computer codes — are exposed to the public so the public can help improve them) internet infrastructure: “‘I was this near-dropout,’ explained [Brian] Behlendorf [an Open Source pioneer]. … ‘None of us had the [...]