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To clarify: (1) Your scenario = don't trademark, use open source license. (2) What Mozilla does = trademark, use proprietary license. (3) What Mark thinks should be done (afaiu) = …

That makes so much sense. I thought you might be pulling the e-mails out of the applications manually, and having coded and used a system for processing submissions (to an online f…

Hi Ryan, The thing that struck me as really useful was the way you could use the slides to get an overview of and jump around inside a presentation. For me, that looks like a kille…

dupe http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=22037

Yep, but then he explained it even further and made clear that the quote didn't quite make clear what he said :-) http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=21967 I've had the same re…

They're really running on a tight schedule... On the other hand, my understanding is that they've been hard at work since their original announcement, figuring out how their progra…

DabbleDB is a startup using Smalltalk. http://dabbledb.com/

Thanks, Paul! Between your reply and pg's, I understand your point a lot better now, I think.

I suppose I took PB's post more broadly than it was intended, then. If he was only talking about solving hard problems that don't benefit the user proportionally, I see that there'…

paul says that the way to build successful products is to avoid hard problems: http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2007/04/secret-to-making-things-easy-avoid-hard.html http://news.yco…

"The survey did not ask where the respondents obtained the content, ignoring the reality that many were possibly downloading television shows from Bittorrent or similar services." …

Thanks for the answers! :-)

A general question and a specific one: Who are you? Metalab has an extensive website, but who's behind YEurope? You know that the funding is only a small part of what YC provides -…

What I'd like to see is companies hiring lawyers who spend their surplus time blogging. Being involved in the community should prevent them from being as seriously out of tune as t…

Your point is that news.yc and other social news sites are actually more useful when more people use them, right? I agree with that. But IMHO, that's missing the point of the artic…

Oops -- sorry that I misunderstood so completely what you were saying! Thanks for the explanation :-)

And closer to home: Is Google?

Hey, death threats aren't funny, and being afraid of a death threat is something very different from being afraid that taking a stance might hurt your bottom line.

Well, I haven't read everything on their site, so I don't understand all the details and I may have misconceptions, but my understanding is this: In the physical world, to prove th…

As the Ars Technica article is, uh, rather light on details, here is what appears to be the homepage of the IBM project: http://www.zurich.ibm.com/security/idemix/ Looks like it's …

Not new, but useful. Thanks for reminding me of this!

I don't find it ironic. I find it unrelated. If you could find a successful startup today that used a lot of IBM technology -- even if you could show that a startup today succeeded…