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cmcginnison The Shaggy God - Richard Stallman in Boston Magazine

Consistency in itself is not much of a virtue.

cmcginnison Who shot General Motors? (Labor unions, in 1950.)

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups."

cmcginnison Who shot General Motors? (Labor unions, in 1950.)

"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..."

cmcginnison NowPublic news site buys Guy Kawasaki's Truemors website

Board of advisors, not board of directors.

cmcginnison Free & Proprietary

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.

cmcginnison Ask YC: I think i have some great ideas for websites, but I don't code. What to do?

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ojbyrne

worked once...

cmcginnison A PHP Guy’s Look At Python

Hey, look what Og do!