Sunday, December 17, 2006

SCO vs IBM

Two very educational webcasts from the Harvard Journal of Law that give enormous insight into both sides of the SCO vs IBM battle.

Darl McBride, CEO and President, The SCO Group



Eben Moglen, General Counsel for the Free Software Foundation



Some references:

Eldred v. Ashcroft
Freeing the Mind
Zero marginal cost economics of Open Source

Saturday, December 02, 2006

I like this piece of clever code. You might too...

float InvSqrt (float x) {
  float xhalf = 0.5f*x;
  int i = *(int*)&x;
  i = 0x5f3759df - (i>>1);
  x = *(float*)&i;
  x = x*(1.5f - xhalf*x*x);
  return x;