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Tuesday, May 18, 2004
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The Wastrel Son: "He was a stock character in 19th-century fiction: the wastrel son who runs up gambling debts in the belief that his wealthy family, concerned for its prestige, will have no choice but to pay off his creditors. [...] George Bush reminds me of those characters [~] and not just because of his early career, in which friends of the family repeatedly bailed out his failing business ventures. [...] One by one, our erstwhile allies are disowning us; they don't want an unstable, anti-Western Iraq any more than we do, but they have concluded that President Bush is incorrigible. Spain has washed its hands of our problems, Italy is edging toward the door, and Britain will join the rush for the exit soon enough, with or without Tony Blair."
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531 spam e-mails in a week -- Comment()
The level of spam rises steadily. Two weeks ago was the previous peak, about 550 spam messages in a week. Then the deluge decreased below 500, only to raise again this week. Last year the typical volume was about 200 messages per week. If the trend continues, I will receive about 1000 spam message in a week at the end of this year.
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Fighting against the open source community -- Comment()
New Book Slams Linux, Torvalds: "A study challenging the origins of Linux states that the open-source software frequently is taken or adapted from material owned by other companies and individuals. It also directly questions Linus Torvalds' claim to be the inventor of Linux. |...] The information is contained in a book by Kenneth Brown, president the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution." Well, here is a quote from earlier debate: Every now and then, you hear about or read something that forces you to look at things in a new light, to marvel at the goings-on of the Universe. The paper, "Opening the Open Source Debate," written by Kenneth Brown, president of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institute, fails utterly and entirely to accomplish this.It seems that Kenneth Brown wants publicity for his views, which seem to be rather at odds with the open source community.
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