FLOSS Gives India a Boost in Many Markets and Endeavors. A recent conference in India offered examples of how FLOSS affects everything from education and health services to internal software markets. [Linux Journal] this is a good conference review, lots of interesting work going on in india.

seeing things. the bourgeois left in Labor. Thats P.P. McGuinness saying that in the Sydney Morning Herald. Who would that be? Are… [Junk for Code] there is the labour international ….

I'm disappointed by the apparent lack of interop in iChat AV; since I won't use AIM or .Mac it looks useless to me. My impression is that Mac users have been clamoring not for yet another Mac-only videoconferencing app, but for something that can interop; in that respect iChat AV doesn't contribute anything. [Hack the […]

PHP5, MySQL, and Licensing. It seems that Sterling and others are talking about the licensing conflict between PHP (BSD) and MySQL's updated client library (GPL). This may be a bit premature, since the folk at MySQL are considering a blanket exemption for Open Source projects with OSI approved licenses. Yo, MySQL folks! What's the word? […]

OpenContent's David Wiley, Educational License Project Lead. David Wiley, Assistant Professor of Instructional Technology at Utah State University and founder of the trailblazing OpenContent, is Project Lead for development of an educational use Creative Commons license, which begins today. Welcome, Professor Wiley. Read the first draft. Review our earlier discussion on the subject. Join the […]

The Economy of Policy. No Tax Relief for Married Poor. Because they, presumably, are not American. [MetaFilter] someday, maybe, someone will fix taxes to be something reasonable instead of law after law after law of abolute wrongness and silliness.

Damned browsers can't print. Could somebody please tell me, given that we are half way to 2004 in the 21st goddamn century, why I cannot print a web page without losing 50% of all the words on the right hand edge of the page.  And it's not just IE, Firebird is just as bad! [Curiouser […]

Scooterman: drunkard's chauffeur on a folding scooter [bOing bOing] brilliant

Technology or Culture?. TECHNOLOGY AND ORGANIZATIONAL UNIFICATION: This blog is really transformational for me.  Just when I think I have heard all perspectives, I'm awakened to new viewpoints.  Case in point…  I was with a very respectable customer today.  It was clear that these folks get the value of  human interaction given the market they are in (PURE […]

MoveOn's online primary starts Tuesday..   [aka propagandart] [a klog apart] A very interesting experiment in online democracy. The results will be interesting. [A Man with a Ph.D. – Richard Gayle's Weblog