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The major mac/productivity blogs have all seem to gone Hemingway-esque.

Shawn Blanc
Merlin Mann at 43 Folders
Quote from John Gruber of Daring Fireball

Why not pirate software at your business

1. Legal issues. Fines. Possible jail-time.
2. Disgruntled employees may use as leverage. Blackmail.
3. Unethical IT professionals might install hacks on you computer.
4. Lack of vendor updates and support. No protection from new threats, bug fixes, or improvements.
5. Shows lack of ethical leadership.
6. Destroys environment of trust. (i.e. If you steal from others, your employees, suppliers, and other trusted partner will steal on you.

- Consultants advising small enterprises should make them realize that the initial software savings are quickly eaten up by future servicing, liabilities, and risk.

Why study history? Some thoughts I had awhle back.

We study history not because it is so familiar to us. We study history not even because we want to trace our roots. We study history because it is so different from us. Because we can read about those people that shared the same physical space with us but seperated by time. We about them and find that their attitudes, thoughts, ideas, and prejudices our so radically different from ours.

We study and we can reflect about our own culture. To question our fundamentals and realize that maybe our fundamentals, the bedrock of our culture, are not so fundamental after all.