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Lessig V Helprin (Lessig FTW!)

Posted on May 21st, 2009 in Books, Open Source, copyright

Over on the Huffington Post Lawrence Lessig wrote a (rather long) review/rebuttal of Mark Helfrin’s Digital Barbarism–The Solipsist and the Internet (a review of Helprin’s Digital Barbarism)–where he, basically tears Helprin’s aruments a new asshole.This quote is worth everythingelse rolled together in the article. One might as well say the world of non-copyright gave us [...]

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Financial Software for the home user and Linux

Posted on August 23rd, 2008 in Finances, Open Source, Software

The state of financial software for everyday people on Linux is abysmal. I’ve been using Monyedance for my finances, since I moved over to linux/Ubuntu completely 3 years ago, and am very happy with it, except for one niggling problem with dialogs lately. The problem with Moneydance is that it is not free, either money [...]

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