Ruminations on the Digital Realm

When it comes to hypes I have one automatic response: stay away from it. Maybe I value my individuality too much or do I simply distrust anything that can stir a mass of people into ‘me too’ behavior. Fortunately, time often proves me right and that what was once considered a ‘must have’ or ‘must [...]

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It was expected by some. For the third year in a row the Dutch Cartel Office (NMa) decided there were no reasons to look into the Dutch software market, despite requests made by people in the field of commerce and education and by the Dutch parliament.
In a letter send to me (and perhaps the other [...]

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One of the core principles of open source development is “freedom”. As such, there are few limitations for developers and end users to take the work of others and move it into a direction they deem better. This has led to a proliferation of Linux distributions, remasters and scores of applications that sometimes are hard [...]

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In June 2007 I wrote a review about PCLinuxOS. The conclusions were not all positive, nor completely negative, but nevertheless it resulted in quite a few comments. I shouldn’t have picked on the ” Radically simple” slogan and criticize PCLinuxOS like that. Maybe, maybe not. I do believe in the strength of criticism as a [...]

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One of the things I want to do in 2008 is to write a series “Thirty days on the command line”. I know it has been done before, which means that I have more than enough background material to tackle the problems I no doubt will encounter.
A few weeks ago I got a big box [...]

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