• Cookies are for Closers: Oren Hurvitz’s Blog » Apple’s Engineers: an Unexpected Profit Center
  “Apple engineers make $89,000 a year, whereas Google engineers can buy four more Segways a year (pre-tax) with their $112,573 paycheck. Microsoft and Yahoo are closer to Google: both companies pay their engineers $105,000 a year.”
  (tags: apple information)
• Wine HQ Announces Wine 1.0
  The Wine team announces version 1.0 of their product - after 15, yes, 15 years of development.
  (tags: unix linux windows emulators)
• LiquidPlanner: Project Management That Deals With Uncertainty
  “LiquidPlanner, is specifically designed to account for unplanned events and delays. “
  (tags: collaboration development projectmanagement productivity software)
• Main Page - hylafax.org
  HylaFAX is an enterprise-class system for sending and receiving facsimiles as well as for sending alpha-numeric pages.
  (tags: communication digital free opensource faxserver)
• James Governor’s Monkchips » Building a Social Media Platform and Community: Three Legs
  “I often tell software companies that if they want to build developer community momentum they should look at the three legged strategy of the 37Signals posse.”
  (tags: 37signals process philosophy)
• Interview: John De Goes Introduces a Newly Free Source Code Editor | Javalobby
  “The tools market is dead. Open source killed it. The only commercial tools that can survive today are the ones that leapfrog open source tools.”
  (tags: programming software tools)
• Google gets serious about the Mac | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET News.com
  “In the “20 percent time” that Google employees have to work on projects of personal interest, it turns out that an increasing number are spending time writing open-source projects for their beloved Macs. “
  (tags: apple applications google opensource osx)
• Reddit Goes Open Source
  Social News Site Reddit Open Sources itself.
• Technovia: In ten years time, will Apple be the new Microsoft - an abusive monopoly?
  As Apple grows marketshare and keeps tight grip on 3rd party applications, can they wind up more of a monopoly than Microsoft ever was?
  (tags: apple monopoly)
• Correspondence - Thanks, Weird Al, You Model American - NYTimes.com
  “So already, thanks to Weird Al, my son has latched onto a great American freedom — the one to poke fun at whomever, especially ourselves.”
  (tags: weird-al newyorktimes)
• France to ban illegal downloaders from using the internet under three-strikes rule - Times Online
  “Anyone in France who persists in illicit downloading of music or films will be barred from broadband access under a controversial new law that makes the country a pioneer in combating internet piracy. “
  (tags: piracy france prevention)
• Reroute Mobile Text Messages To Your PC With 3Jam’s SuperText (Private Beta Invites)
  “A new service by 3Jam called SuperText is launching in private beta that detects when you are at your computer and lets you send and receive text messages for free. “
  (tags: text-messaging free service startup)
• A Mother’s Journey: 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography
  Pictures telling the story of a mother whose son has cancer. Really moving.
  (tags: cancer death family online photography photos pulitzer photojournalism)
• GIT Version Control Cheat Sheet.
  A cheat sheet for GIT, something I was playing with again tonight.
  (tags: git howto)

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