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Comment · 18 years ago
Consistency in itself is not much of a virtue.
Comment · 18 years ago
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups."
Comment · 18 years ago
"But none of G.M.’s management miscues was so damaging to its long-term fate as the rich pensions and health care that robbed General Motors of its financial flexibility and, ultimately, of its cash.

General Motors established its pension in the “treaty of Detroit,” the five-year contract that it signed with the United Automobile Workers in 1950..."

Comment · 18 years ago
Board of advisors, not board of directors.
Comment · 18 years ago
BSD and MIT gives you the freedom to take away other people's freedoms using the code.

This sort of doctrinaire newspeak is what gives GPL advocates the appearance of a cult. Developers who incorporate some open source code in their app and don't release it aren't taking away anyone's freedoms.

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