luminary blur http://ben.kwinix.com/blog tech, videos, photos, and apple too Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:08:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 41.598235-88.027539Subscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesSubscribe with Live.comThis is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use. MacJournal: The New Way to Post…for Now http://ben.kwinix.com/blog/2010/03/08/macjournal-the-new-way-to-post-for-now/ http://ben.kwinix.com/blog/2010/03/08/macjournal-the-new-way-to-post-for-now/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:02:04 +0000 Ben http://ben.kwinix.com/blog/2010/03/08/macjournal-the-new-way-to-post-for-now/ Just got MacJournal with the MacHeist nanoBundle2. I’ve been using ecto to post to my Wordpress blog but I think this seems more intuitive for personal blogging. Plus, I like the idea of keeping separate “journals” of posts that may or may not be fit for publishing. We’ll see how long this arrangement lasts.

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“Good ideas are meant to spread.” This is the sentiment of those who are against Apple’s lawsuit. But why create ideas if you can’t keep them to yourself? A lot of companies invest in R&D in order to make money off of what they invent. The counter to this is that Apple has stolen ideas from others – notably Xerox PARC. The difference in that situation is that Xerox wasn’t doing anything with their ideas—they were ideas for the sake of ideas. Apple took them and implemented them and made money. It would be similar if Apple came up with ideas relating to the iPhone/iPod touch/iPad but didn’t use them. That’s not the case. They are using them to make money and they should be allowed to use them to make money.

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Tim and I spend the day at McCormick Place.

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