All geeks should read this. All non geeks should read this

This article describes most geeks broadly, but accurately. This is great for geeks/IT people to read to get an idea of how others can see them. But more importantly, everyone who knows a geek needs to read this. It is long, but it is so well thought out. It uses analogies that are both very funny and completely true.

Case in point:
"I think every good IT pro on the planet idolizes Dr. House (minus the addictions)."

Just read it.

"Opinion: The unspoken truth about managing geeks"
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9137708/Opinion_The_unspoken_truth_about_managing_geeks?taxonomyId=14&pageNumber=1


Now I have to go send this to my fiance and every member of my family :P

Greenpeace - How electronics companies line up

Very interesting read. I am going to need to use this next time I am unsure of what company to go with for a product (when talking about two or more comparable products).

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/toxics/electronics/how-the-companies-line-up

Old freeware should be open sourced

If you make freeware, you could open it up for others to help or build on. Clearly this opens you up to more bugs, but it also opens you to innovation and others fixing all the bugs.

What about when someone no longer wants to/cannot develop their application any more? Examples:
StrokeIt
DVDShrink
All the tools by AnalogX

I SourceForge a good location for these types of applications?

Is there a better place where developers can put their applications' source code so it will be opened up to the public if development stops on it?

I don't know the answers to these questions. I have not used SourceForge for anything but downloading applications. I hope to get more time to look into this in the future. If you have any thoughts, please feel free to leave comments.

A quick google search and I found these sites for 'open source software management': http://dotproject.net/
http://gforge.org/gf/
http://dcl.sourceforge.net/
http://www.taskjuggler.org/
None seem to have the feature I mentioned, but they sound useful none the less.

What happens to the Big Three's intellectual property

*If *the 'Big Three' go out of business, what will happen to their patents, parts stock, research and development information, market research, ect?

I wonder who will buy their patents, like battery and electric motor technology, research and development information, ect.

Will their properties be bought up by Oil/gas companies (the only people with money to buy things and never use them, just to kill competition)
Perhaps another auto maker will but the whole Volt project, for example (and then make it look better too :P).

Just some food for thought.
Feel free to post some thoughts in the comments.

Chrysler Blog - ‘thank you america'

Read the comments :)

http://blog.chryslerllc.com/blog.do?id=564&p=entry