Monday October 20, 2008 links for 2008-10-20
- How the financial collapse killed libertarianism
The editor-in-chief at Slate blames the collapse on libertarians who "are intellectually immature, frozen in the worldview many of them absorbed from reading Ayn Rand novels in high school". Powerful stuff. - Powell's endorsement
A video worth watching. Powell is polite, rational, has a shrewd analysis of the campaign and sums up what I have been hearing from many of my friends - of each political persuasion - about the US election. As Lessig says, an important milestone. - Boybama - Battleground for Your Heart
Some people have waaaay too much time on their hands. Pretty good song actually, all things considered, especially the rap break. Personally I can do without the video but then I'm not the target audience. - Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy - Lawrence Lessig
Lessig's new book is out - can't wait to read it. Amazingly I am in roughly the right place to attend the launch party on October 29.
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( Oct 20 2008, 12:41:00 PM PDT )
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Blame libertarianism for the crisis? In what way could US economy be considered libertarian? There are tons of regulation and 15 000 civil servants in Washington dedicated to monitor and superwise the financial sector.
It was the politicians who ordered the banks to lend money to those who couldn't afford it. The idea behind Fanny and Freddie wasn't libertarian...
Posted by Markus on October 21, 2008 at 12:10 AM PDT #
Sorry to be off-topic, but Marc Hamilton replied in his blog to my idea about selling software subscriptions via Sun's web site, like MySQL does on theirs. He thought maybe Sun could look at "insourcing" this job to the MySQL people.
What do you think? I'd dearly love to buy an xVM Server subscription with my plastic by filling out a web form and clicking "buy". I'm sure there are thousands more like me around the world. Anyway, thought I'd mention it to you since you're the Open Source/Service guru.
Posted by Kevin Hutchinson on October 22, 2008 at 04:23 AM PDT #
@Markus
Are you parodying the linked article?
Posted by Patrick Finch on October 23, 2008 at 12:42 AM PDT #