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Mono, Miguel and Matt Asay

2007.11.02 Fri 2:43 P GMT-07
As long as biased people are commenting on Matt's pining for a more innovative Miguel, I thought I'd throw in my two cents. I'm certainly biased* and have my opinions as well. So yes, Matt made a technical faux paus in pleading with Miguel to devel
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In Russia Open Source rescues you

2007.02.08 Thu 10:00 A GMT-07
Given that MS is cracking down on poor Russians (which is weird since rampant piracy of their products only serves to promote their monopoly), I would've thought that some open source vendor would jump in to rescue Mr. Ponosov (head of school mas
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Novell's "Forking" of Open Office

2006.12.06 Wed 9:55 A GMT-07
This is a response to my friend Matt's take on Novell's work with OpenOffice. I had some trouble posting there, so I'll post it here. This is definitely a Good Thing(tm) for MS. Switching formats on the new version (Office 2007) is one reason

If you can't beat them, join... no wait, don't let them license it...

2006.11.23 Thu 8:43 A GMT-07
Interesting move by MS to license the rights to create fancy new office 2007 uis. The one exception is that you can't use the ui in a competing product [ read OpenOffice ]. This just seems silly to me, but hey you gotta protect the cash cow somehow
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More computers, less keyboards. A plug for synergy2

2006.07.07 Fri 8:30 A GMT-07
I've been working mainly with two laptops recently. I normally use ergonomic keyboards with my desktops and was noticing that my wrists were sort of twitching. The solution? Buy a new keyboard. (So I went out and bought an ergonomic keyboard that
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