implicit art

Tectonic has a story running about Steve Balmer meeting with the Deputy President. This is a very disconcerting thing, and unsurprizingly the editor Alistair, a man I’ve known for many years, atacks it with zest. In fact in all the years I have known Alistair I have never read him being so forthright before.
I sent him a mail in private with praise for the piece, but considdering it’s relevance to free and open-source software as well as to related ideas like free culture, I felt it worth giving him a plug here. Artists have as much too fear from deals like this as programmers do – and we ought to be on the same side after all (and I say this as somebody who considders myself to be both of the above).