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Danny O’Brien

Danny’s “jet plane emotions” on the iPad

January 31, 2010

My deputy-nemesis Danny O’Brien on the iPad, openness, and hacking stuff: “It’s easy to see the iPad as the final tragedy in a long history of openness and tinkerability in general purpose computing. But the truth is, the cyclical fight against locked-in systems has been the recurring theme of computing since the mainframes. Our open [...]

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What’s the point of copyright law?

August 8, 2008

One of the things that is making me happy at that moment is that Danny is blogging again. Of course, with Danny being Danny and me being me, we don’t always agree – and there’s a great example in that in his post on "Copyright, Fraud and Window Taxes (No, not that Windows)". Comparing copyright [...]

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