Abraham's Rants

Here are some rants posted elsewhere, I for various reasons have decided to keep here. I do rant a lot on various fora, but only recently got the idea of keeping the better formatted and stand alone ones here.

Major Rants

I spend some time writing these as stand alone rants.

Choosing a free software license, posted 2001 as a story on Kuro5hin, reposted later the same year on gnu.misc.discuss.

Minor Rants

These are mostly answers on web-boards I for some reason have decided to save.

Documentation Goals, posted 2001-10-14 as a comment on Advogato.
Don't use typedef void* for abstract datatypes, posted 2001-03-07 as an answer to a story on Kuro5hin.
Why bugs are good for you, posted 2002-02-16 as a comment on Advogato.
On good presentations, posted 2003-12-14 as a comment on Slashdot.
Why off-shore oursourcing are insignificant, posted 2004-03-22 as a comment on Orkut.
In defence of C, posted 2004-03-25 on Orkut.
Predictions of the future, posted 2004-09-12 on Slashdot as an answer to the questions in a Locus article .
Defence of wikipedia, posted 2004-11-16 on Slashdot as an answer to a Tech Central Station article.

Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>