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Wednesday, March 19, 2003
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Why Shared Source is not Open Source: "This topic has been written about at least 1000 times. But hardly anyone seems to have highlighted the biggest practical difference between Open Source and Shared Source: That you can modify Open Source software to fit your device (and other software), while Shared Source only lets you modify your device (and other software) to fit the Shared Source software."
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Traveling in the time of war -- Comment()
I'm thinking of attending a grid meeting abroad in the beginning of April. It seems that the war in Iraq is starting any day now, so I'm still a bit hesitant of traveling. But I'm not too worried about the security of flying at this moment. In 1991 I organized a workshop on cellular automata in Finland. Due to the Gulf war, the workshop was difficult to arrange, because the invited speakers were not sure of being able to travel. For example, IBM had forbidden traveling of their US staff. Fortunately the war of 1991 was short, and the workshop actually had many participants from abroad.
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