| 1. | | Quake 2 Source Code Review (fabiensanglard.net) |
| 347 points by DanielRibeiro on Sept 20, 2011 | 19 comments |
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| 2. | | Google+ Opens to All (googleblog.blogspot.com) |
| 300 points by Umalu on Sept 20, 2011 | 175 comments |
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| 3. | | Help, I’m on the IRS hit list (theglobeandmail.com) |
| 284 points by DanielBMarkham on Sept 20, 2011 | 219 comments |
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| 4. | | OnStar Begins Spying On Customers’ GPS Location For Profit (zdziarski.com) |
| 264 points by jzdziarski on Sept 20, 2011 | 92 comments |
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| 5. | | Wikileaks Takes Down the Head of Al Jazeera (readwriteweb.com) |
| 250 points by mwilcox on Sept 20, 2011 | 60 comments |
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| 6. | | Running a startup on Haskell (bos.github.com) |
| 213 points by DanielRibeiro on Sept 20, 2011 | 70 comments |
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| 7. | | John Carmack coded Quake on a 28-inch 16:9 1080p monitor in 1995 (geek.com) |
| 203 points by ukdm on Sept 20, 2011 | 93 comments |
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| 8. | | Richard Stallman: “Android Phones Do Not Respect Your Freedom” (digitizor.com) |
| 192 points by dkd903 on Sept 20, 2011 | 104 comments |
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| 9. | | Scala school (twitter.github.com) |
| 185 points by swah on Sept 20, 2011 | 25 comments |
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| 10. | | How Apple badly messed up with in-app purchases on Lion and didn’t tell anyone (gorban.org) |
| 173 points by grayprog on Sept 20, 2011 | 48 comments |
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| 11. | | $1,279-per-hour, 30,000-core cluster built on Amazon EC2 cloud (arstechnica.com) |
| 160 points by duck on Sept 20, 2011 | 35 comments |
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| 12. | | Is Printing a Gun the Same as Buying a Gun? (techcrunch.com) |
| 157 points by DanielN on Sept 20, 2011 | 96 comments |
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| 13. | | Patent trolls have cost innovators half a trillion dollars (arstechnica.com) |
| 149 points by zeratul on Sept 20, 2011 | 27 comments |
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| 14. | | Hire For The Ability To Get Shit Done (eladgil.com) |
| 145 points by eladgil on Sept 20, 2011 | 94 comments |
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| 15. | | Git Reference (gitref.org) |
| 142 points by fogus on Sept 20, 2011 | 11 comments |
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| 16. | | Inside Amazon.com warehouse workers complain of brutal conditions (mcall.com) |
| 140 points by aaronbrethorst on Sept 20, 2011 | 74 comments |
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| 17. | | Why Entrepreneurs Can't Sleep (humbledmba.com) |
| 131 points by ddwoodworth on Sept 20, 2011 | 63 comments |
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| 18. | | Twilio has an incredible API (callinwith.us) |
| 131 points by dickeytk on Sept 20, 2011 | 64 comments |
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| 19. | | Full Tilt Ponzi (reuters.com) |
| 127 points by MaysonL on Sept 20, 2011 | 68 comments |
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| 20. | | Samuel L. Ipsum (slipsum.com) |
| 122 points by joshontheweb on Sept 20, 2011 | 14 comments |
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| 21. | | Great developer tattoo, even better explanation. (sangwine.net) |
| 118 points by robinwarren on Sept 20, 2011 | 88 comments |
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| 22. | | India to topple Japan as world's 3rd-largest economy (indiatimes.com) |
| 117 points by Garbage on Sept 20, 2011 | 102 comments |
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| 23. | | The 3D Software Rendering Technology of 1998's Thief: The Dark Project (nothings.org) |
| 112 points by ukdm on Sept 20, 2011 | 15 comments |
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| 25. | | Practicing 2000 hrs (The Dan Plan: a 10,000 hr deliberate practice experiment) (thedanplan.com) |
| 111 points by losvedir on Sept 20, 2011 | 38 comments |
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| 26. | | Microsoft milks Casio for using Linux (theregister.co.uk) |
| 111 points by jvc26 on Sept 20, 2011 | 64 comments |
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| 27. | | Why I regret going to TechCrunch Disrupt (openera.wordpress.com) |
| 110 points by PanosJee on Sept 20, 2011 | 31 comments |
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| 28. | | Declassified US Spy Satellites Reveal Rare Look at Secret Cold War Space Program (space.com) |
| 102 points by sasvari on Sept 20, 2011 | 43 comments |
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| 29. | | The greatest joke ever told - lessons for pitching (thestartuptoolkit.com) |
| 99 points by ColinWright on Sept 20, 2011 | 21 comments |
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| 30. | | How an arcane statistical law could have prevented the Greek disaster (economicsintelligence.com) |
| 96 points by zalthor on Sept 20, 2011 | 31 comments |
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The points that were specifically made (for those that want to rail against the article but that refuse to read it for some reason):
- "Google's Andy Rubin put up a proof that Android was open, then subsequent releases of android were put out in a way that this proof no longer held, so by googles own definition android is currently not an open platform"
- "Google has said it will never publish the source code of Android 3.0 (aside from Linux), even though executables have been released to the public. Android 3.1 source code is also being withheld. Thus, Android 3, apart from Linux, is non-free software, pure and simple."
- "Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go. Even though the Android phones of today are considerably less bad than Apple or Windows smartphones, they cannot be said to respect your freedom."
- "The phone network firmware comes pre-installed. If all it did was sit there and run, we could regard it as equivalent to a circuit. When we insist that the software in a computing device must be free, we can overlook pre-installed firmware that will never be upgraded, because it makes no difference to the user that it's a program rather than a circuit.
Unfortunately, in this case it would be a malicious circuit. Malicious features are unacceptable no matter how they are implemented.
On most Android phones, this firmware has so much control that it could turn the product into a listening device. On some, it controls the microphone. On some, it can take full control of the main computer, through shared memory, and can thus override or replace whatever free software you have installed. With some models it is possible to exercise remote control of this firmware, and thus of the phone's computer, through the phone radio network."
Take issue with what the man said, not with the man.
My personal take on all this is that if you base your offering on a huge amount of open source that you should keep the spirit of those whose code enables you to run your business alive and respond in kind.