By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: December 12, 2006
Tuesday, 12 December 2006
- Whose Week? ★
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Paul Kafasis on MacHeist:
I really think it’s important to step up and challenge the basic idea, seen in many recent promotions, that giving away software (or getting so little that you’re essentially giving it away) is beneficial to the developer. I’ve heard nothing more than anecdotal evidence to support the idea.
- Gus Mueller on the Economics Behind MacHeist ★
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Gus Mueller:
I’m certain the developers who are participating in the bundle know what they are getting into, and have good reasons for doing so. But for MacHeist to call it “The Week of the Independent Mac Developer” and to practically give away the software... well, that’s just a fucking insult to me and all the other hard working developers out there.
Be sure to read the comments on Gus’s post; it’s a vigorous thread. Keep the channel tuned to DF for more on this later today.
- Remember What It Was Like Before Southwest Airlines? ★
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Great commercial from 1972. (Via Coudal.)
- PSTree ★
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Cabel Sasser’s plastic light-up Rumor Santa tells him that a public beta of Photoshop CS3, with native support for Intel-based Macs, is imminent.
- CNBC Has a Funny Idea of What Constitutes a ‘Windows PC’ ★
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Their example of a ‘Windows PC’? A MacBook Pro. There’s always Boot Camp, I suppose. (Thanks to Namair Faraz.)
- Jim Allchin: ‘Setting the Record Straight’ ★
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Jim Allchin, who, it’s worth pointing out, was in charge of Windows Vista’s development:
As part of one of Microsoft’s on-going lawsuits, a piece of email that I sent to Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates recently became public. It was a rant encouraging a change to the way we were building Windows at the time. In the email, I made a comment for effect about buying a Mac if I was not working at Microsoft. Taken out of context, this comment could be confusing.
Where by “confusing” he means “embarrassing”.
(Thanks to Chris Pepper.)
- Logo Quiz: Hair Care or Digital Audio? ★
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Damn tricky; I only scored 11/14. Funniest thing I’ve seen all week.
- Windows Development Chief: ‘I Would Buy a Mac if I Didn’t Work for Microsoft’ ★
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So wrote Jim Allchin in a 2004 email message introduced as evidence in an antitrust case in Iowa. Somehow I really doubt that Bertrand Serlet has written any email messages saying he’d buy a Windows box if he didn’t work for Apple.
There’s also an interesting tidbit at the end of the story claiming that Bill Gates has a technical assistant “whose primary duty was to make sure no permanent record of Gates’s email existed”.
(Thanks to David Mitchell.)
- Macworld: The 22nd Annual Editors’ Choice Awards ★
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Macworld’s 2006 Eddy Awards are out; among the winners are a few products I use regularly: iLife ’06, Fission 1.1, Keynote 3, and the utterly indispensable SuperDuper.
There are also a bunch of winners I wasn’t really familiar with but look very interesting, like TechTool’s Protege — a 1 GB thumb-sized flash memory drive loaded with troubleshooting software, and which uses FireWire (instead of USB), which means you can boot from it.