Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Monday, October 13, 2003

[Item Permalink] Differences between Microsoft and Open Source -- Comment()
Microsoft philosophy: Either us or them.
Linux/Open Source philosophy: Both us and them.


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An open access journal on biology: "A new scientific journal challenges the expensive heavyweights that have dominated the world of research, and it hits the Internet on Monday. The journal, called the Public Library of Science Biology, is backed by leading scientists such as Dr. Harold Varmus, former director of the National Institutes of Health and now chief executive officer of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York."


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Joel on Character Sets: "The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)" [ranchero.com]


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Scumbag Slime Spammers: "The latest trick of the disgusting scourge is for the sub-humans to leave their SPAM in the comments section of blogs. I've been seeing more and more of it here. Some of it is for pr0n, some for .biz advertising; whatever." [CraigSchamp.org]