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why I hate your freedom

Happy New Thing.   So anyway, Adam Leventhal found out AAPL hamstrung DTrace w.r.t. certain apps on Leopard (iTunes at least).  Cue inevitable Slashdottian outrage. When source code gets released under a license everyone (so long as they follow those terms) gets to port, extend, or shout about how your license isn’t free at all really. They can even choose [...]

speculate wilder

Mr Schwartz has been banging on about datacenters . It usually means something is coming. I just got wind of ’Project Blackbox’: It’s a datacenter in a container (no, not that sort of container). Presumably with a network port at the back, and a power connector. It could be photoshopped, but I’ll put money on [...]