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 […]
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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, […]
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 […]
