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	Wednesday, October 23, 2002

 To the Recycle Bin!

Another step closer to sending all desktop apps to the recycle bin.

Drag and Drop In Internet Explorer. Add personality to your pages by extending the default drag-n-drop behavior of the Internet Explorer Web browser. Guest author Nicholas Zakas shows you how to use JavaScript to tie into and customize IE drag-n-drop events. 1023

[WebReference News]

11:05:09 PM  comment [] | Topics: GUI 

 The Coolest Radio Trick Yet

This is the coolest Radio trick I've seen yet:

 Click here to add this event to your Outlook or Netscape calendar.

Actually, it's not just a Radio trick, it's a web trick. I love it. See Blue Sky Radio for vCalendar and Radio, Part 1 and 2.

10:57:29 PM  comment [] | Topics: Tools 

Democrats who hate the GPL (General Public License).

[Jenny Levine: Blogging]

7:12:14 PM  comment [] | Topics: Open_Source 

Posting this for myself, and the current nightmare I am living trying to interpret open source license legalese.

OSAF Post Feedbacks.

Marc Canter points out here that open source and free software are not inseparable and that one can build a commercial business using open source components.  I agree.  Gentleware built Poseidon UML using ArgoUML, an open source project.  I don't know how they are doing financially, but they are getting a lot of downloads. 

Scott Johnson posted a point by point rebuttal here. 

Andrew Shearer also posted that sense of value is already gone and that OSAF just means more competition with beneficial effects.

[Don Park's Blog]

9:35:17 AM  comment [] | Topics: Open_Source