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Google should open source what actually matters: their search ranking algorithm
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
All Tarsnap profits for Dec '09 will be donated to the FreeBSD Foundation
Much of the work done by the FreeBSD Foundation is done behind the scenes, but the importance of the work they do is undeniable. They sponsor a range of important FreeBSD development which would likely not get done otherwise; in the past year this has included
I pushed 30 of my programming related projects to github
Hey everyone, I just pushed 30 of my projects to GitHub. I realized that all the projects were scattered across my blog and there was no central repository. So I took time to organize them, write documentation, and uploaded them to GitHub. I did all of these projects for fun and to learn better programming. You…
Eric Raymond on "Hiding the Decline, Part 1"
From the CRU code file osborn-tree6/briffa_sep98_d.pro , used to prepare a graph purported to be of Northern Hemisphere temperatures and reconstructions.
Skype Open Source "in the nearest future"
Lorsque le dernier Skype est sorti, il n'y avait pas de RPM Mandriva et j'ai donc contacté Skype pour essayer d'obtenir un RPM spécifique à Mandriva comme ils l'ont déjà proposé par le passé.
Miguel de Icaza responds to latest RMS article
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Mozilla Test Swarm Alpha Open
TestSwarm , the project that I’ve been working on over the past 6 months, or so, is now open to the public. Mozilla has been very gracious, allowing me to work on this project exclusively. At the beginning of April I moved from my old position as a JavaScript Evangelist on the Mozilla Evangelism team to that of a…
How to Compete Against Open Source Competition
At some point in the past year I watched a video of an Eric Sink presentation and he asked the following question (he said it was asked of him by a college student): Why would someone buy your product when it has an open source competitor? He didn’t answer it in his presentation, but if I rememb
BSD For Linux Users
Your browser doesn't seem to support CSS , which this page uses for all styling. Don't be surprised if it looks kinda boring.
Miguel De Icaza: Microsoft promises to never sue anyone regarding Mono.
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