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Linkage 2007.01.22

Min<br/>

Making apps a bit harder to crack (just a bit)<br/>

Usenet: Rails – 100% Magic, 0% Design<br/>

There’s no overarching design or scheme of things, it’s just a bucket of tools with some glue poured in.

GoBe to buy Be?<br/>

Blue Lotus is already planning for its next foray and is negotiating to buy out the BEOS operating system from the promoters of BE Inc, which was the original owner of GoBe Productive, but were driven to bankruptcy as they were unable to compete with Microsoft.

IBM: “No to FOSS OS/2”<br/>

As stated in our response to your September 2005 letter we have considered the positioning of OS/2 and open source several times in the past, and for a variety of business, technical, and legal reasons we have decided to not pursue any OS/2 open source projects.

-m