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" It's so boring the kids are still complaining about people who have more money than them" That's not what they are complaining about; they are complaining about them rigging the …

I worked at SugarCRM for years. It's often easier than one suspects once you figured out what a customer pain points are and show them a less burdensome solve. Most businesses do n…

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"Companies have shown us that IP going to AI providers is acceptable" This is where I'm expecting future collision; you can't both value IP for it's training value, and yet devalue…

This is....ridiculous. Does Meta also capture it's CEOs movements with such fidelity?

I still have my Sony Vaio from that period. Its on a shelf covered in stickers and signatures (e.g. Illiad, ESR, Commander Taco/Hemos, etc) as a kind of keepsake, since I suspect i…

"It's a delicious irony that E is now a super-lightweight system compared with the mainstream environments" Absolutely.

The amount of abuse I hurled at Carsten Haitzler (Raster) during our time at VA Linux (where he worked on E as well as other stuff) was a complete sitcom unto itself; at one point …

"A society unable to tolerate deviance from the norm, is a society that will fail to adapt to inevitable changes to the norm" I feel the same way about societies that continue to f…

Nobody of a certain age. If you are over 35 you'll remember when they were known as a Chinese firm buying up all of the IBM Thinkpad business...

Hurd is long past ever being anything but a pet project of RMS and his familiars.

Xenix was worse, but only a little. Both it and HPUS were atrocities.

Good riddance. Of all the Unix variants I tried over the years, HP-UX was the second worst (that dishonor goes to Xenix). I remember giving a talk at Chico State University back in…

Network effects and an as-yet insufficient friction to leave en masse has kept LI in a semi-moated space. There have been competitors, but they are either niche (Zerply) or more re…

Which college?

Vera-Augustin, the two founders.

"but I got the impression that their server line was just as important." They were far more important for the business.

They did. I actually worked on a few of those projects (e.g. Stampede Linux) One of these days I should blog about how we ended up hosting Python for years...

1. I have some serious biases against Penguin at the time (for...reasons) and frankly was never impressed with their product. 2. Without getting into a bunch of weird minutiae, we …

Reddit was contemporary to Digg, it just survived 'better'

They didn't evolve into SF; SF was a project inside of VA that eventually became the flagship of what remained after the hardware and related services were excised. When they start…

Some people can make a living doing something they enjoy. "Success" is not fame, and vice versa (they are wholly orthogonal to each other), and I remember reading an interview with…

"I wonder why we cant mandate Optical Fibre as standard as well" Lobbying by big ISPs.

That language feels like it came from a fever dream of Alan Greenspan.

Many are not.