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Posts by Leon Stringer
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Stallman storms in on Oz software patent conflab
Wednesday 22nd September 2010 13:42 GMT
Non-software patents are not necessarily good
That's overly simplistic. Software patents are bad, patents in general are a framework where we accept a period of restriction on the assumption that this stimulates development and innovation. This trade-off doesn't always work: http://mises.org/daily/3280
Whitehall coughs £250k for Bletchley Park pothole repairs
Friday 26th March 2010 13:02 GMT 
Another thumbs up for the BP museum
Since it's been dissed I'll chip in: I love the BP museum. Whilst it's certainly tatty, it's where it all happened and you certainly get a sense of the history by actually being there. Being a geek I loved the old technology and the staff there were great. If you haven't visited, make the effort, it's easy to get to (one stop from Milton Keynes, 2 mins from the station, plenty of parking).
OpenOffice 3.2 - now with less Microsoft envy
Monday 15th February 2010 13:06 GMT
Re Microsoft in schools
> Schools pay about £8 per machine per year for Windows & Office under the Schools Agreement.
That's the cost to the end users. The cost to the tax payer who are locked in to take whatever Microsoft give them is enormous and is surely an anti-competitive practise (albeit perfectly legal). If the users don't pay the true cost, how can they reasonably evaluate solutions?
Cambridge string theorist to succeed Stephen Hawking
11 Time Lords plan charity shindig
Tuesday 23rd June 2009 12:51 GMT 
Has history taught them nothing?
Mentioned already: the awful The Curse of Fatal Death, which -- incredibly -- was penned by Moffat.
But even worse: Dimensions in Time, summarised by one reviewer as "a dreadful travesty". (Amusingly, this is in a tin at the Beeb marked "Not for rebroadcast", actually due to copyright issues, not because it was so awful).
Oh, and it jumped the shark with the giant Victorian cyberman at Christmas...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
