webkit - used in konquerer and chrome.

apple has contributed to a lot of things that you may not be aware of, as has microsoft.

David Axmark (the second founder of MySQL) and I released it 'open source like' (this was before open source) in 1995

i think that several people would disagree with that.

mySQL was seen at the time as an answer to mSQL, which was non-free, even to the point of sharing a very similar API.

funny how times and history change.

What if some company decides to make a CPU scheduler

oooo. that could turn out to be a very good market. i wonder if there's an easy way to replace it? a scheduler tuned to specific tasks could turn out pretty good - could you imagine using windows on the desktop? 2010, i'm telling you, the year of the windows desktop!

On a related note, will Apple have to stop including Safari with OS X?

no. apple does not hold a monopoly on the desktop - or anywhere else at this point. when the iphone reaches 90%+ marketshare, that may change.

SOA = Service Oriented Architecture, and is one of the big crazes in the tech world right now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-oriented_architecture

because the article didn't seem to help with that.

Just read the last page of the PDF document.

the signature? what font is that in?

do you perhaps mean:

ouroboros?

oroboros is a window manager.

I think they ran out of money because they have allocated it all towards coupons that have been distributed, but haven't been redeemed or expired.

exactly! i am counted toward that - i received two coupons, but they were both expired by the time converter boxes started showing up in my market. isn't there some way to account for those?

If Oregon wants more revenue, they're free to institute a sales tax

the problem is that oregon has very high income and property taxes to make up for the lack of a sales tax. washington does not. if this were to change, one state would need to adopt the taxation style of the other. that just isn't going to happen.

if 0.24 isn't enough, make it 0.48

one major problem with your argument:

the major metropolitan area of the state (portland) is literally right across the river from cheaper gas without the extra tax.

this already works out where many people that work in oregon live in washington (vancouver), buy their gas in washington, drive on mostly oregon roads, do not pay oregon income taxes, do not pay oregon property tax, and since oregon has no sales tax, do not pay washington sales tax since they shop in oregon. it's a big win for them, and a loss to both states in revenue. this would only cause more people to fill up in washington (1 mile from my portland house).