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“If your name is on a software patent, you should feel ashamed.”

Mark Pilgrim relates a life story about patents & corporate culture.

“Sigh. I used to have the strength to argue against such foolishness. Nowadays I’m reduced to nothing more than Grey’s-Anatomy-esque catchphrases. Seriously? Seriously? Do I really have to explain why this is a bad idea? Again? To a bunch of technological virgins who haven’t been fucked yet? Seriously?”

Luckily there are still some people around who get this. Please read, i don’t want to hear about either silverlight, apollo or any of the other crap again.

Actiontastic developer Jon Crosby just announced on his development blog he will be releasing Actiontastic 1.0 as an open source project. That is great news for the community and for Jon as it takes his app from “one of the best” productivity tools out there to “the best” in a single swoop.

Actiontastic will most likely thrive and the optional web app companion tool Actionatr will instantly gain a user base that he can monetize.

We had a great little web 2.0 drinks yesterday. Nice, and lots of, people and a great location. The positive response made us promise we’ll do it again sometime soon. And we managed to get some sponsors for the next event already. No pictures though, my phone ran out of steam halfway through

Rene has a nice writeup on his own blog too (in dutch).

Douglas Crockford will be hosting The Browser Wars next wednesday. Should be rather interesting, not that i will be anywhere near the US next wedensday though.

For some reason the Safari team declined to come, which is a bloody shame really. I still think Safari is the best, and certainly the fastest, browser on a Mac if it weren’t for extensions.

Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine.

A quote from Bill Gates

The goal is to compare tools, but there will be no overall winner?. Why do they feel the need to keep stating that their testing method is scientififc (oj!). Why did the Ruby, Python and .net teams not qualify, what were the guidelines?

Neither Python nor Ruby nor, surprisingly, .net had a sufficient number of sufficiently qualified applications.

Why was that surprising only for the .net entry? And more questions from the organisers;

Why was Perl initially not in the list of platforms?

This was a mistake by Lutz Prechelt. He was simply not aware of the recent developments in the Perl web frameworks and erroneously believed that too little professional web development was being done in Perl.

Strange how a competition that is supposed to enlighten seems shrouded in questions…

nu.nl/internet | Hyves en eBuddy populair bij Dutch Web 2.0 Awards

update:
And de Telegraaf, Emerce, the Netvibes blog, Webwereld and of course the shock doc by Spunk.nl