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Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Two summers ago Washington state enacted a public smoking ban that prohibited smoking within 25 feet of doors and windows. Note the distance on Microsoft building doors in the picture below. Embrace and extend is alive and well on the Redmond campus: Microsoft loves this law in the same way they ...

Will data portability be a battle like free software?

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

It's taken over 20 years of serious work and advocacy for the free and open source software movements to achieve their incredible succeses. While the battle certainly isn't over (patents!), it has been won in critical areas and it's continued success is finally feasible. Largely because FOSS is in the ...

Sharing unnecessarily large video files

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

The good news is UnrippedFiles helped an Ubuntu neophyte share his 30MB video file with me. The bad news is the file was only 30 seconds long and I didn't need raw video quality; video capture software should have helped him trim that down. Linux desktop users can try Kino (export ...

Unripped is alive

Friday, March 7th, 2008

We have: A product called UnrippedFiles: Store files online and share them with OpenID users. A wiki for planning and explaining distributed social networking. This blog. OpenID profiles. When you sign up, we give you an OpenID (see http://unripped.com/aklemm for an example) Our goal on unripped.com is to provide an ultra modern file sharing service ...