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Re:The Shaggy God - Richard Stallman in Boston Magazine on Friday July 11, 2008 @11:07PM (#244258)
Consistency in itself is not much of a virtue.
Re:Who shot General Motors? (Labor unions, in 1950.) on Friday July 11, 2008 @10:35AM (#243568)
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups."
Re:Who shot General Motors? (Labor unions, in 1950.) on Friday July 11, 2008 @10:23AM (#243553)
"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..."

Re:NowPublic news site buys Guy Kawasaki's Truemors website on Thursday July 10, 2008 @10:34PM (#243166)
Board of advisors, not board of directors.
Re:Free & Proprietary on Thursday July 10, 2008 @08:49AM (#242329)
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.

Re:Ask YC: I think i have some great ideas for websites, but I don't c... on Friday July 04, 2008 @08:09PM (#236676)
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ojbyrne

worked once...

Re:A PHP Guy’s Look At Python on Friday July 04, 2008 @05:11PM (#236562)
Hey, look what Og do!

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