Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Friday, March 26, 2004

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"Free Culture" is: "Thanks to [...] the courage of a great publisher (Penguin), Free Culture launches today with a free online version of the book, licensed under a Creative Commons license. You can get the book here, though at the moment, only the bittorrent version is apparently up. Later today, there will be a direct download available from the Free Culture site, and from the Amazon site." [Lessig Blog]


[Item Permalink] How Microsoft tried to hurt a competitor -- Comment()
Letter shows Gates tried to enlist Intel to hurt competitor: 'In June 1990, Bill Gates wrote a letter that began "Dear Andy" and ended with the Microsoft co-founder imploring Intel chief executive Andy Grove not to invest in a potential competitor, a jury was told Wednesday.'


[Item Permalink] Apple releases Xgrid T.P. 2 -- Comment()
Xgrid Technology Preview 2: "Building on the enthusiastic response to the first preview, Xgrid Technology Preview 2 adds a command-line tool for submitting and monitoring jobs from the command line and support for the Message Passing Interface for tightly-coupled computations."