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Lindows is an operating system for Microsoft haters and cheapskates. Its flaws make Windows seem like a genuine bargain. [Forbes/Yahoo!]

Learned a tiny little bit about Event Tracing last night. The command “Logman Query Providers” gives the first glimnce of this feature. The details about how the feature works and what APIs are use it are available on MSDN.

Microsoft to Issue Fewer Stock Options, Gates Says [Bloomberg.com]

Coming up next: Ambushed on “Donahue”!
More dangerous than Grand Theft Auto 3 — a defender of video games is given the trash talk-show treatment. Here’s what he really wanted to say. [salon]

Switcher’s remorse. An Episcopal priest goes from Windows to Mac but then has second thoughts. Is her computing soul at risk? [Salon.com]

Bush’s Mideast Sand Trap. The Bush policy today is to punish its enemies with the threat of democracy and reward its friends with silence on democratization. By Thomas L. Friedman. [New York Times: Opinion]

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Office XP vs. bugs, round two. Microsoft plans to release its second “comprehensive” collection of bug fixes, or service pack, on Wednesday. [CNET News.com]

I remember once reading about the mirror way of thinking. The basic idea of the miror is that many complaints or rationlizing from one party to another should be examined in the other direction. I’ve read many things that critize payfor software for borrowing things in the public domain without giving back, and then today I realized that the thing I dislike the most about the GPL is that so much of it is copying from the public domain (and payfor domain) without giving anything back. I once wrote a little app for beos. I released it with the GPL because I had used a header of id3 genre name to id mappings from a GPL’d piece of source code, had I not done that I would have released it into the public domain. So what if some company picked up my source and made a better product with it? Software would have improved, and my life as a user would have improved.

Yahoo! News – Going Up? Private Group Begins Work on Space Elevator [lnk.to]