You know what? This kid has a brother.
Eckhard Pfeiffer at Compaq fell on his sword. Bring back Rod Canion!
The capitalization on the free software, I mean “open source,” phenomenon continues. Ziff-Davis is hoping to make some money through its open source conference.
News.com has an article that says Apple will release some of QuickTime 4.0 as open source software. Unfortunately, the article doesn’t mention any specifics, like what the license will be, or what parts of QuickTime will be released as source.
Even though I haven’t linked to stories about it much, the growing battle over audio distribution via the Internet is really fascinating. Robert X Cringely has a good column about it this week.
Lance Larka has written an article about Wasteland, the classic role-playing computer game set in post-apocalyptic Nevada (and California). Wasteland was probably my second favorite computer game of all time, coming in just behind Wizard’s Crown (from SSI). The article is a fine appreciation of this wonderful game.