Are you really safe on the web?
Posted on April 11, 2008 | Categorized under Internet
Just a few days back, I received an interesting email from Bank of America! Yes, financial nerds too can send interesting messages; for a change may be, can’t they? Oh! come on! life can’t be that funny! … the message wasn’t really from them; it was rather made as if it was though! And, the [...]
Are software patents evil?
Posted on March 28, 2008 | Categorized under Software
Software patents have constantly been under the fire of debates; if you are not yet exposed to it, following links are for you -
Arguments against software patents
Arguments against the arguments above
Patent system is more than 200 years old now. It was devised to address two main problems related to inventions -
You invent a great [...]
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Free = open source?
Posted on March 21, 2008 | Categorized under Software
Some think and often use these two terms - Free Software (FS) and Open Source Software (OSS) - interchangeably. That’s not completely right. Moreover, some relate both these terms with softwares available for free of any charge. And that’s completely wrong.
Both, OSS and FS, offer free softwares but the word “free” here [...]
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