Monthly Archives: October 2007

Cool new open source-based businesses

Posted on October 23, 2007 by Peter Loshin

Some new and interesting businesses built around open source software popped up on my radar screen today: Beanstalk is a hosted Subversion (version control system software) system, "making it easy for anyone to setup, browse, track, and manage Subversion repositories." … Continue reading →

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Yet another example of why DRM is Bad

Posted on October 16, 2007 by Peter Loshin

DRM, or digital rights management, is the software that content vendors use to punish their loyal customers and (attempt to) control piracy. It adds to the cost of the products "protected" by it, it makes those products less useful to … Continue reading →

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