May 2010
13 posts
A Summer of Fun →
The manifesto still stands, also in 2010!
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FluidDB looks interesting →
Let’s hope it works out better than Freebase…
The BP I've Known Too Well →
It’s funny that we all seem to be in support of what companies like BP do: we want cheaper stuff. Why should we pay more, why should we ask for good work conditions and care for the environment if our neighbor buys the cheap stuff anyway? We want less taxes, less government, less everything. What happened is our fault, but we all happily blame BP. “The Government” is us, it...
“But what, after all, is a law? […] When I say that the object of laws is...”
– The Social Contract, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“One thing we have got to change in our strategy – allowing Office documents to...”
– Memo by Bill Gates in 1998. A short history of word processors: ODF at 5 Years