I think my article on software piracy touched a nerve with a lot of people. I’ve been arguing my case with Philip Durbin since then on Google+. I’ve had almost innumerable conversations with people on twitter about it. And it apparently spurred Wesley David into writing a piece talking about the moral side of the [...]

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I’d love to have written this entry last week, but I just didn’t have time. Two weeks ago, I got the chance to head to Boston, MA and attend LISA’11, the 25th LISA Conference…or was that the 25th Anniversary? I always get those confused… Anyway, I had a really great time, got to sit in [...]

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Brian Heaton of Government Technology Magazine reached out to me for an interview regarding the CPU Act currently making its way through the Senate. He quotes me throughout his article which went live today.

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If you follow me on twitter, you might have seen an interesting occurrence on Friday… I was whining. My server is hosted at prgmr.com, and it’s honestly a pretty decent VPS. I’ve got 2 vCPUs, 1GB of memory, and it keeps up with my normal amount of traffic, which is to say somewhere in the [...]

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I promised an update with the information that I received from my survey of pay types, and here it is. Over the past several days, I received 567 responses from people, both in the United States and around the world. The law that we were discussing was relevant only to the United States, so I’m [...]

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Not everyone is fully aware of what I do at the moment, where I work, and where the money comes from. I need to remain forthright about it, particularly when I have been, do, and will be blogging about companies that have to do with my paycheck, however remotely. Here’s the scoop. I’m currently acting [...]

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