Sun to drop support for Java after the 1.4 release. FUD or an April Fool’s joke, you be the judge.
From one single term President to another: Jimmy Carter tells Dubya to quit exaggerating the energy crisis.
I don’t have time to respond in detail to Andrew Leonard’s appraisal of the world of Free Software in a post-Eazel world, but suffice it to say that there’s lots to disagree with in there.
Craig Mundie to Linus Torvalds: I see your Sir Isaac Newton, and raise you Alfred North Whitehead, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, and Henry Ford.
Just for the record, Gracenote is about as sleazy as it gets. They turned the contributions of thousands of people to an open project into a profit-making enterprise that’s being used to bludgeon the very users that did all of their work for them. The lesson here is that you should be careful about which causes you contribute your effort to. People like Craig Mundie bash the GPL, but if you’re doing something on your own time, it’s licenses like the GPL that make sure that some greedy bastard won’t take your work and try to sell it back to you.