Saturday, July 22, 2006  

[John C. Dvorak]

I've been a subscriber of PC Magazine (Singapore version) for a long time, ever since I read the US version in the library. Over the years, I must say that the quality of the articles have declined a little. Just a little. And they changed Editors recently, without any warning (we knew it was coming the previous time).

The articles are mixed, both from local sources (when it comes to hardware/software) as well as articles from their parent version (when it comes to opinion/trends/etc).

The one column that makes the price of the magazine worthwhile, is that from John C. Dvorak. And no, that's not the guy who came up with the keyboard nobody uses.

His column in this month's local edition of PC Magazine was about open-source software. A light read, compared to some of his other columns. I especially liked one line he used, when he brought up the trend of how folks are getting what they want for free, through legal or illegal means.
"It's amusing to watch a person moralizing from a multimillion-dollar yacht about stealing intellectual property to a guy making minimum wage."
So, who's the real pirate?

^^^ by Locksley @ 9:40 AM. 0 comments.
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