What’s Up with Paul Oppenheim

I had an IM conversation with a law student friend of mine to help her understand the GPL a little better. It focuses mostly on the economics of free / open software and a little on copyright. Well, it actually focuses primarily on shovels. Please pardon the typos and scary structure, I didn’t quite feel like editing :P

(19:56:30) friend: do you think the gpl undermines the
independent commercial software sector bc it effectively makes it
impossible to distribute software on a basis where recipients pay for the
product rather than just the cost of distribution?
(19:56:47) me: not at all
(19:56:53) friend: why

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Man, the housing bubble in NorCal is ridiculous. It’s the opposite back in motown; the article title says it all:

Houses cheaper than cars in Detroit

I actually looked online for a housing auction site, and found that a lot of these houses are in heavily blighted areas such as 48215. (Yes, those green and brown spots are empty lots. Yes, this is in an “urban area.” For a quick background on Detroit’s blight issues, read about elmhurst and try and ignore the “racist jews” slant.)