Saturday, May 5, 2001

The first shoe

Craig Burton reminds us of what's worth arguing about when we compare and contrast what he calls CSM and OSS — the Commercial Software Model and Open Source Software model. Now I'm waiting for more of those helpful Burtonian definitions.

Contemplating literalities

Tom puts a whole bunch of stuff in context with a terrific Goethe quote

He's still using shipping metaphors, but he makes me think

Jean-Louis on capillary markets

Training for the solution to the problem of tracks:

Marek provides a living example.

What's that shit you're wearing?

This one arrived via my cousin John, who heard about it from his old friend Tom, who used to hang out with the rest of us at that great broadcasters' water cooler, the BP Forum (you may need to be a member: Compuserve never made it easy; but the members always made it worthwhile).