Editorial - Curiously Nerdy

Opera Mini on the iPhone, for now

So, today(2010-04-13) it was announced [http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2010/04/13/] that Opera Mini for the iPhone had been accepted by Apple and indeed it was revealed in the Appstore [http://itunes.apple.com/app/opera-mini-web-browser/id363729560?mt=8] within

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Using the GPL as a Dual-Licensing Monopolistic Haven

Can a company control the use of their software intellectual property more completely if they release it under the open-source GNU General Public License (GPL)? I hadn't really thought about it before, but while researching the OSS position of MySql I read an interesting

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Jeff Atwood of Borg-StackOverflow Careers Assimilation

[https://curiouslynerdy.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Jeff_of_Borg.jpg] I've found StackOverflow to be a fun and vibrant community as well as an almost daily touchstone for programming and tech problems. Because of my enjoyment of the site I've started listening to

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Palm Afraid of anti-"TiVoization"

Palm Inc. with the release of their Linux powered smartphone called the Pre, now has a vested interest in the group of manufacturers using Linux as their embedded OS. As opposed to companies like Apple and their BSD based OSX in the iPhone Linux