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Cook realized that his board or shareholders would fire him for getting Apple locked out the Chinese market (both for sales but also for the manufacturing). Not an easy position to…

If they are fined or in contempt of court ... I would recommend consulting with an Australian lawyer and then the Australian embassy before boarding a plane to Australia.

EFF officers won't be able to vacation in Australia.

I am not a legal expert, but at what point does the DoJ step and investigate Google for monopolizing 'search'.

This is not a news article. This is an op-ed piece by a US Senator. The author may be concerned about NSA/CIA inserting their spyware into US products, and may also be concerned ab…

I like the idea but in the world we live in (post 9/11), it is a major security violation.

Bought a Maytag washer+dryer more than 20 years ago before it was bought out by Whirlpool. Occasional minor fixes, but both still work great. So happy we bought them. I remember th…

Mythical Man Month and Peopleware both deal with managing work: estimating work, problem of quality, feature creep. Agile offers methods to address these same problems, just a litt…

Goodies but very oldies. The forerunners of agile.

It seems like there are 2 OSS models other there: 1) community supported; 2) company led. Most of the "community supported" projects that I have used are libraries. Since shifting …

Has anyone seen a tool like this used in real world (wide web)?

this is not just about Ford. eff is pointing out a common business practice of using DCMA to undermine competition and maintain market share. The link at the end of the article is …