Subscribe

• New Comments

Community

Top Commenters

• eee_eff

  781 comments · 5 points

• Richard Bennett

  604 comments · 1 points

• Steve R.

  461 comments · 20 points

• Jim Harper

  261 comments · 1 points

• Adam Thierer

  180 comments · 0 points

Popular Threads

• Defending Free

  1 week ago · 12 comments

• “Free” Isn’t Worth Reading, But It’s Worth Discussing

  1 week ago · 10 comments

• Thank God the Euro-crats are Saving Us from a Browser Monopoly

  5 days ago · 1 comment

• Ad-Supported Internet: The Musical (Web Side Story)

  1 week ago · 7 comments

• Don’t Believe ‘Special Access’ Hype

  2 weeks ago · 19 comments

Recent Comments

• Steve R. -- you might want to read the Web Site User Agreement for my web site http://zgp.org/~dmarti/meta/tos/ and do something similar. (I was thinking of something like "by reading my blog...

  2 hours ago by dmarti

  in The Arcane Mystery of What Everyone Does

• Incredibly hollow post, contracts of adhesion are designed to unilaterally "protect" the seller by "restricting" (depriving) the consumer of their rights. To assert that we...

  4 hours ago by Steve R.

  in The Arcane Mystery of What Everyone Does

• Why don't more proprietary software vendors use a common license? The proprietary EULAs mostly say the same things -- couldn't the BSA or somebody issue a standard one?

  16 hours ago by dmarti

  in The Arcane Mystery of What Everyone Does

• Twitter as we know it was built for about $15-20 million. Google lasted almost a year on $100,000 before taking over the world with $25 million of investor money. This is highway robbery, you could...

  17 hours ago by Timon

  in Initial recovery.gov pricetag: $9 million

• I think the news people are in a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" bind over Google's indexing and summarizing of their work. Allowing it to be indexed gets them a little...

  18 hours ago by Richard Bennett

  in Antitrust Enforcement in the Age of Free