Sunday, July 13, 2003

Ongoing: Whats a Sharecropper

What it comes down to is this: if you want to develop software, you can build for the Web and/or Unix and/or OSS platforms; or alternatively, you can be a sharecropper.

Whats a ShareCropper?
A farmer who works a farm owned by someone else. The owner provides the land, seed, and tools exchange for part of the crops and goods produced on the farm.
It�s a lousy position to be in, because you�re never going to make much, and if the land�s owner finds something better to do with the land, you�re history.


Browser of the Future

Don't try to re-invent the browser, please.

Mozilla and hypocrisy

Right, but what about the experiences that Mozilla chooses to default for users like switching to  Yahoo and making that the default upon ...