Tag Archives: open-source

Least frustrating system ...

30Apr2009 1 Comment
stevenf​.com: I don’t con­sider myself blindly brand-loyal to the Mac. I know, right? Co-founder of a indie Mac soft­ware company? I find Mac OS X to be the least frus­trat­ing of the cur­rently avail­able options, but the buck cer­tainly doesn’t stop there. We have miles and miles to go in terms of mak­ing com­put­ing bet­ter. I want my socks [...]

The ecstasy of influence ...

29Jan2009 Leave a comment
The ecstasy of influ­ence: A pla­gia­rism, By Jonathan Lethem Harper’s Magazine In nearly one breath, [Muddy] Waters offers five accounts [of the ori­gin of his song]: his own active author­ship: he “made it” on a spe­cific date. Then the “pas­sive” expla­na­tion: “it come to me just like that.” After Lomax raises the ques­tion of influ­ence, Waters, [...]

Google’s Open Source Patches to Wine ...

13Oct2008 1 Comment
Dar­ing Fire­ball Linked List: Google’s Open Source Patches to Wine This idea deserves a full essay, but for now, con­sider: In the same way that Apple took Mac OS X and Cocoa and shrunk them to serve as a hand­held device OS, I think Google could take Android and grow it to serve as a PC OS. [...]
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