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Ah, yes.  Open Source.  The Utopia of the software world.  The land in which all software is free, and all bugs are patched quickly.
At least that’s what it used to mean.  Or at least what it still means to some people some of the time.
For better or worse, the term Open Source has changed drastically […]

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U-Haul
Enterprise Car Rental
IKEA
What do these three companies have in common?  Besides the first two, they’re both vehiclular rental companies.  NO ALL THREE!  These three large corporations have something very specific in common.

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I am now recovering from one of the more lengthy and painful periods of being more or less unemployed, and am currently working for a great team at a great startup working on great technologies.
Phew.  It was a close one.
However, before I ended up at my current place of employment, I had the opportunity to […]

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Solution: Quit and start a blog! Give them your ideas for free!
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Dogster is on a self-inflicted PR campaign garnering all sorts of publicity.
Check out their blog post about being on ABC News.
My feelings? I would never in a trillion billion years announce to the public that my employees are such childish burnouts that I had to put restrictions on what they can and can’t bring […]

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Listen. It’s not that I think everything should be free. Really, it’s not.
Provide me good content for a reasonable price, I’ll make some small internal computations, and if it’s a deal, I’ll pony up.
But what about content that is outdated, is no longer available to the consumer, and is collecting dust in a […]

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The code of transparency in Silicon Valley can get ridiculous. We all know this.
Company x announces a great idea, tries to get funding to create said idea, and bigger/faster company y steps up to the plate and kills them dead.
Sharing of information and progress makes things move faster and is better for the consumer, […]

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I’m sick.
Man sick, even. The kind where the tone of my voice never changes from a whine and when I got out of bed this morning and nobody was around to console my mansickness, I had no choice but to spend a half hour describing my symptoms to my cats.
So I went to the […]

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