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Rebel Code
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30 June 2007
Irving Wladawsky-Berger: And Another Thing
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I interviewed Irving Wladawsky-Berger twice: once for Rebel Code , soon after IBM announced its support for GNU/Linux - arguably one of the ...
04 April 2007
Oh: And I Thought IBM Got It
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One of the key moments in the rise of open source was IBM's announcement on 10 January 2000 that it would be supporting GNU/Linux across...
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01 February 2007
Scooped on the Chief Lizard Wrangler
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There's a great feature in Inc . about Firefox and its boss, the self-styled Chief Lizard Wrangler, Mitchell Baker, whom I interviewed ...
09 November 2006
Tapping into the Digital Tipping Point
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For some reason, the idea of open source film is one that exerts a strong fascination on people. I've written about it before , and her...
16 August 2006
Big Blue Turns a Deeper Shade of Penguin
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When I was writing Rebel Code , which describes the birth and rise of free software from Richard Stallman's initial idea for GNU, I was ...
09 August 2006
Wizard Idea, Wirzenius
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Lars Wirzenius is not as well known a he should be, for he more than anyone was both witness and midwife to the birth of Linux. Along the w...
21 July 2006
Tanenbaum Rides Again
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For younger readers of this blog, the name Andy Tanenbaum may not mean much. But for oldies such as myself, it is highly redolent of those...
16 May 2006
The Joy of Open Source
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It's well known that lots of big companies are using open source; but do they really get all this communal effort, contributing back to ...
11 May 2006
OpenStreetMap Takes the Path of Stallman
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There's a piece in the Guardian about OpenStreetMap 's Isle of Wight effort . I was struck by this wonderful quotation: The weeke...
29 April 2006
Tridge and Bill
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An interesting story in The New York Times about the courtroom battle between the EU and Microsoft. It makes beautifully clear how one hu...
19 April 2006
Amazon Plays Tag, Blog and Wiki
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For all its patent faults, Amazon.com is one of my favourite sites. It has repeatedly done the right thing when mistakes have been made wit...
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15 February 2006
Can Google Measure up to Technorati?
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Google has acquired Measure Map , a service that tracks visitors and links to blogs. This is of double interest to me. First, because like...
10 February 2006
Scrying an Oracle
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This story has so many interesting elements in it that it's just got to be true. According to Business Week , Oracle is poised to snap ...
06 February 2006
Mozilla Dot Party 2.0
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For me, one of the most exciting chapters of Rebel Code to write was that called, rather enigmatically, " Mozilla Dot Party ", wh...
22 January 2006
VIIV, DRM, and Fair Use: the Big One
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The ever-acute Doc Searls reports on the CES keynote from Intel CEO Paul Otellini. Given Searls' position as an alpha blogger, it was...
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