Posts by Steve Parker

Cookies

So I now get the opportunity to consolidate the adverts I post (and the website(s) I run), with the adverts I buy, with the searches I do, with where I live, with my bank account details, and now, my views on current affairs.

Wow - thank you, Google..

I never used to delete my Google cookie; with the new search-history thing, I will definitely be setting up a script to get me a new cookie daily.

OIN == Death of F/OSS

I can't believe that El Reg are posting this as any kind of a Good Thing.

It is an undeniably Bad Thing.

Great, so this little clique of multi-million (billion) dollar companies can all afford to get involved in F/OSS development, without suing each other.

Isn't that lovely for them? What about the guy in the basement? The Finnish student (Linux), the MIT researcher (GNU), the band of webmasters (Apache), the small team of dedicated engineers (SAMBA and lots of ofter projects)?

None of these projects could have even started within such an environment.