Attended a very interesting talk by Tim O'Reilly last night. I found it a little rambling, and sometimes hard to follow his train of thought. However he has a lot of interesting ideas, and a sound, balanced view of open source and the Internet, something that seems rare even in the open source community.
Some links that came out of it :
- The Importance of Perl an essay Tim wrote in 1998 explaining how Perl fits into the Internet
- foundation for information policy research, particularly the link to information about the recent proposed European Union Copyright Directive and software patents that threatens bad things.
- The Sole of a New Machine - The story of a group of engineers designing and building a mini computer in the 1970's