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PBX My name is Paul Bissex, and e-scribe.com is my consulting business. I build web applications using as much open source software as possible. From September to June I teach web design and other important non-photographic professional skills to photographers. In the '90s I wrote technology commentary and reviews for magazines, newspapers, and web publications, including Wired, Salon.com, FamilyPC, the late lamented Web Review, and the Chicago Tribune. Feel free to email me.

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I'm co-authoring a book, "Python Web Development with Django", with Jeff Forcier and Wesley Chun. It will be published by Prentice Hall in July 2008, but is available for pre-ordering on Amazon now.

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Wozniak pro-open-source comments

The Stanford Inquirer has an interesting interview with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. The whole thing is worth reading, but what caught my attention was this little digression on open source software:

I just favor the whole concept of open source as being a way that companies can be not entrapped by proprietary software. And one thing we do find is that anytime you're using something that's proprietary, you do wind up being pretty trapped, as much as they can trap you.

Remarkable words coming from somebody so strongly associated with proprietary systems.

Saturday, December 10th, 2005
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Some related posts: Latest iPhone SDK bug reports • Mac OS Forge • Songbird, open source competition for iTunes • Great open source apps for the Mac • Web Inspector, a DOM inspector for WebKit

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