Just a few links today, but they’re to things I’d be pleased to own in that they stimulate the observer. First some T-shirts:
In the non-wearable corner, there’s this exquisite paper-cut art by Peter Callesen. I love the large-scale papercuts, but they’re all so beautifully imaginative!
In a follow-up to yesterday’s post, here’s a transcript of an interview with Steve “Monkey Boy” Balmer (CEO of M$) where he makes an oblique reference thus: “that product [Linux] uses our patented intellectual property”. Really? It does? If M$ could sue any distributer of Linux for patent violations, don’t you think they would have by now? After all, Linux is a cancer according to him. No, there are three reasons why M$ keeps spouting this rubbish: firstly, merely implying it keeps people uncertain and nervous, and stops them examining the reality of the situation; secondly, it provides deniability, being so vague; and thirdly, even if there were violations, as soon as M$ declared them, the Linux community would remove them – that’s the beauty of Open Source s/w, you can get at the code. I can’t decide whether to feel sorry for M$ as their strategy is so unfair, or angry for their repeated attempts to discredit others.