From the “Wake up idiot” file comes this Don Crabb column. In it, Crabb runs down the reasons why Apple is being dressed up for sale to an entertainment megacorp like Disney, Viacom, or Time-Warner. These rumors have been floating around since long before Steve Jobs made his triumphant return to Apple, so I wonder why it is that Crabb would close with the statement, “Remember where you heard it first.” Maybe he wants to remind us of all of those rumors we read on the 9,135 Apple-tracking Web sites over the years.
Linux Weekly News has a useful rundown of the Red Hat S-1 filing.
Wired News has a story about the tempest in a teapot surrounding the use of dirty words in the Linux Kernel. The only reason this story is interesting is the great quotes from Linux Torvalds.
NetScripter keeps track of resources for Open Source web developers. Specifically, they have lots of links of interest to PHP and Perl developers.
Could this case be an ominous sign for rc3.org daily? The Dutch supreme court has ruled that sites which provide links to copyright-infringing material also infringe upon that copyright. News.com also managed to find a legal expert who said that this finding isn’t outside the realm of plausability for the US courts either. Once again the Scientologists break new ground in limiting personal freedom and shutting down independent voices. Damned clams.
Fast Company has an article that gives Eric Schmidt’s rules on managing geeks. You wouldn’t think it could be so simple, but the rules are frighteningly on target. All managers should read this article and live it.