Monthly Archive: January 2010

Elections for sale

This ruling by the Supreme Court on campaign spending is outrageous. Long-term damage to our democracy and our country is inevitable. It  just adds more fuel to the arguments against treating corporations as legal persons.

Platforms, Trust and Open Cloud Computing

JP Rangaswami’s post on platforms is worth reading. Rather than try to summarize it myself, I’ll just excerpt a few highlights: His definition of platforms: something that is a foundation, an enabling environment, upon which others can build things, make things something that exists for a specific purpose (or set of purposes), and which invests …

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