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I thought about this name, why doesn’t Microsoft make the source code for its older Windows versions like Windows 98 public? The name OpenWindows has been used before by Sun Microsystems (a competitor of Microsoft) however so I don’t know if they can use the name (although it could be argued that they own it […]

I just read some interesting stuff about Corporate Feudalism (yeay, again a term from Kim Stanley Robinson’s books). The author of the text says “So, employees end up getting paid by the hour. So maybe it’s natural for us to think that what we’re selling our employers is our time”. Well he continues to argue […]

In the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson (which I’m reading for I guess the 6th or 7th time…) a possible future of capitalism is described. In KSRs universe big companies merge to become so called ‘transnationals’. These enormous companies are so big they are not bounded by specific countries anymore and become the new world powers. I found […]

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