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About This Page
You can stop reading this right now: there is just no reason why you
would care about the content on this page. This is a scratchpad where I
write short note about subjects I would I would like to investigate and
write about in the future.
Blurbs / Opinions
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Wikipedia: the incredible
success of a collaborative encyclopedia
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Netflix: an exemple of
business model that combines 3 technologies, 2 of them considered
hi-tech (Internet and DVD) and 1 very low-tech: the mail (aka snail
mail). Also this Slashdot article about snail mail
still winning the bandwidth war.
Articles / Facts
- Crime going up in Switzerland, while it is going down in the US: 2002
police report in the Canton de Vaud, federal
department of justice and police.
- Percentage of the GDP in taxes in different countries, in
particlurar: US, Switzerland and France
- Interpretation of the GPL. According to the GPL
FAQ, it is not ok to use the GPL for the plug-in for a non-free
program. It is not clear how the GPL can prevent someone from
distributing separately: (a) a non-free software, (b) a GPL plug-in to
the non-free software. The distribution is done separately and only the
end-user is linking (a) and (b) creating a combined work. Since the
combined work is not distributed in any form, this scenario should not
violate the GPL.
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