Monthly Archives: June 2005

 

June 19, 2005

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Open Source vs. Commercial Software

My colleague Dan Woods just posted one of his typically thought-provoking questions on his Blog at O’ReillyNet. Referencing Jared Diamond’s superlative (and Pulitzer-winning) book “Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, Dan asks which one of the two software creation models will come to dominate the other — Open Source or Commercial? While [...]

 

June 2, 2005

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Walking Assets

Our long distance bills are typically pretty small, but every so often a long call to an old friend results in a surprising phone bill. After years of trusting Working Assets Long Distance to be reasonable (and contribute to good causes) my growing suspicions were too great to ignore. Turns out we were in fact [...]