Links May 2011Links May 2011
John W. Dean wrote in insightful series of three articles for Findlaw about Authoritarian Conservatives [1]. In summary there are Authoritarian Followers who follow their leader blindly and Authoritarian Leaders[...]
Month: May 2011
Are Assholes Essential to a Free Software Project?Are Assholes Essential to a Free Software Project?
What do Assholes do? Rusty just wrote a post titled “If you didn’t run code written by assholes, your machine wouldn’t boot” [1] about some of the anti-social tendencies demonstrated[...]
Book Company BankruptcyBook Company Bankruptcy
In February Borders went bankrupt [1], since then they have been in the slow process of closing down. Now Borders is trying to clear the last of their stock and[...]
Preventing the End of the WorldPreventing the End of the World
Some crazy people led by Harold Camping who call themselves Christian claimed that the world was going to end yesterday [1]. Harold had previously done this in 1994 so he’s[...]
Osama bin LadenOsama bin Laden
After almost 10 years the Americans finally found Osama bin Laden, unfortunately they were unable to take him alive. The Reid Report has a good summary of what happened [1].[...]
This Event Will be PhotographedThis Event Will be Photographed
The above sign was prominently displayed at a fair that was recently run by the Banyule Council. We have had some discussions in the Linux community about what policies should[...]