Links for August 7th through August 8th

• Groklaw – Eben Moglen's LibrePlanet 2010 Keynote on the State of Free Software and the Future
  I think it was Ben Franklin who said: "Those who will sell their Freedom for 99 cents an app get what they pay for.'l
• Executive Leaves Apple After iPhone Antenna Troubles – NYTimes.com
  …and after they went through do much trouble to poach him from IBM.
• Dell hires Surgient and Hyper9 founder and former CTO
  Virtualization CTO now at Dell doing cloud stuff.
• Cash-Rich Apple's CFO May Have World's Best Job
  "The iPhone, iPad, iPod and Mac computer maker has accumulated a cash pile that totals nearly $46 billion, the biggest cash hoard among U.S. tech companies and equivalent to one-fifth of Apple's market capitalization."
• A Devops Case Study
• Updates on Microsoft Oslo and “SSH on Windows”
  Microsoft should probably open source PowerShell to get it to be everywhere, at least as a client. Probably difficult due to Windows intervals dependencies, but it'd be tragic for PowerShell to be isolated due to being closed.
• The biggest lie about U.S. companies
  "You'd think someone might have noticed something amiss. After all, we were simultaneously being told that companies (a) had more money than they know what to do with; (b) had even more money coming in due to a surge in profits; yet (c) they have been out in the bond market borrowing as fast as they can."
• Microsoft begins adding single-sign on support to its Azure cloud
  Having various SSO and Identity 2.0 stuff in your PaaS would be handy.
• Gowalla Connects With Politics
• Dynamic language slowdown at Microsoft?
  Casting doubts about Microsoft fully supporting Ruby.
• Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943 – Plog Photo Blog
  I don't know about you, but it's hard to think of this time in anything but black and white. So, it's fascinating to see color photographs from the first half of the 20th century: "These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations."

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