Looney Tunes. Apple's disabling of Internet sharing in last week's iTunes 4.0.1 update caused quite a stir. I'm baffled -- not by Apple's decision, but by much of the reaction to it. [Daring Fireball]

Finally! A voice of reason...

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Palm to acquire rival Handspring. The company plans to buy Handspring to strengthen its grip on the market for handheld devices. It also has finalized plans to spin off its PalmSource software unit. [CNET News.com]

This comes as a big surprise to me. What do they hope to accomplish with these moves? They just bought one of the biggest clients for the company they are spinning... I don't get it...

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Gnutella author quitting AOL over inability to express in code. Justin Frankel, the founder of Nullsoft and author of Gnutella, WinAmp and WASTE, has posted a blog entry in which he eloquently describes his feeling that coding is a form of expression, and his inability to reconcile AOL (his employer)'s total control over his coding. He says he's quitting AOL.

For me, coding is a form of self-expression.

It's probably the form I'm most effective at.

Everything I own is arguably owned by the company.

The company controls what I do with my code...

The company controls the most effective means of self-expression I have.

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(via Hack the Planet) [Boing Boing Blog]

I think this is the start of a trend we are going to see often. Companies do not create things, people create things. The good ones will either get what they want or leave... I don't know whether AOL will succeed, but I'm sure Justin will not fail...

Side Note: I didn't see this in my RSS feed from Hack the Planet... what gives?

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