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"Otherwise, start your business where you’ll be happy and where you’ll find like-minded people." Seems this was one of the reason YC left Boston,

I agree with you. It is the bank which has done a mistake. Mail user or google has nothing to do with it.

I am so stupid, I never realized that I am wearing pink because I am "real man". I just thought it looked good on me

That's a neat hack

Looks like VC's and women have something in common.

Good observation. Its more important to use opensource software

This would be great !!

I always thought iPod a bit of hype. Either it should be iPod shuffle of the iPhone, others, even iPod touch are unlikely to survive

I used clamwin, the windows version of clamav. That is after I used AVG for a while and went through the same experience. One good thing about using open source application is that they wont ask you to upgrade to some paid version later.

Who is underdog? Richest person on earth?

I can't stay away when in office, but when working on my own at home, I hardly visit HN once in may be two hours for 5-10 min.

This is great news for people like us. The down side is that publishers may not publish the books, since open access will definitely going to reduce their revenues. It will be interesting to see if MIT can do something like announcing about the literature and hosting it. Which was being done previously by publishers.

Beliefs are beliefs, they may or may not be facts

The main point of ESR seems to be that it is economically bad for companies to close the source of their product, which is not very true considering apple has very good success rate with both MAC and iPhone. He has not give examples of his "study" about companies which lost because of closing the source of some open source software. If lawyers and corporate bosses are afraid of GPL, let them be. How can you justify removing of GPL just because lawyers and corporate bosses who never contributed anything to free community are afraid of it?

That sounds great. I would have loved to learn maths like that

I would agree on DHH, If you really think you can build something cool, why would you wait for two years to learn business aspect of it. As PG says in how to start a startup, "I found that business was neither so hard nor so boring as I feared. There are esoteric areas of business that are quite hard, like tax law or the pricing of derivatives, but you don't need to know about those in a startup. All you need to know about business to run a startup are commonsense things people knew before there were business schools, or even universities" so, why not try out building a startup

I agree with you. RMS has been telling from long time, its is not about convenience, it about freedom.

Bangalore, India

Nice, along with web based user interface, we can try desktop kind of interface as well, both in lisp.

Go for it, may be I will follow you!

IBM has its own business interests to contribute to FOSS, it would be interesting to know what interest FOSS could be for companies like Infosys. Open source contribution requires dedicated interest and a sense of community, which cannot be developed as a temporary option to work on while on bench. The people who might have already worked on FOSS stuff might be able to make some useful contribution, working on new stuff as a temporary option are unlikely to produce useful results

As mentioned in the article, sport rules should be changed to weigh just before start of the game. That will reduce this kind of hacks

The era of IP, pay per download etc is going to fade away, music companies are better off make money by subscription from user to download all the music they want. Something like oreilly safari http://my.safaribooksonline.com. This would atleast for now make users stream or download from official sources.