Category Archives: Editorial

Opera Mini on the iPhone, for now

By Josh Perry | Published: April 20, 2010
So, today(2010-04-13) it was announced that Opera Mini for the iPhone had been accepted by Apple and in deed it was revealed in the Appstore within a few hours. Many have written on the loophole that Opera used to make this happen; Opera mini isn’t technically a browser, it can probably be more accurately described [...]
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Using the GPL as a Dual-Licensing Monopolistic Haven

By Josh Perry | Published: January 11, 2010
Can a company control the use of their software intellectual property more completely if they release it under the open-source GNU General Public License (GPL)? I hadn’t really thought about it before, but while researching the OSS position of MySql I read an interesting post on Michael Meeks’ log that alludes to something of this [...]
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Jeff Atwood of Borg-StackOverflow Careers Assimilation

By Josh Perry | Published: December 8, 2009
I’ve found StackOverflow to be a fun and vibrant community as well as an almost daily touchstone for programming and tech problems. Because of my enjoyment of the site I’ve started listening to the StackOverflow podcast with Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky (my opinion of which is another post altogether). I’ve found Jeff to be [...]
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