hobbyists

Mike Purcell has a recent post to his blog looking at the rumors of a Symfony 1.x fork and some of his own thoughts on the matter.

The Digital Prism : "Microsoft's army of apologists like to spread the word that Linux is a "hobbyists OS", so this post is a look at what that means and why it's a label more suited to Windows."

Hardware Central: "AMD today announced the availability of a new six-core desktop processor and platform to accompany it, which includes a new chipset and support for hobbyists who like to tweak their processors to the limits of their heat sink and warranty."

It used to be when you bought a product, you owned it. Simple, right? And once you owned it, you could do what you want with it?

But, lately, thanks to digital products and an always connected world, many companies have changed things around -- so the products you thought you owned, you actually rent.

But, it can go even further than that, where a product you thought you owned can be irrevocably changed without your permission, long after you bought it.

Electronic Frontier Foundation: "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) warned Texas Instruments (TI) today not to pursue its baseless legal threats against calculator hobbyists who blogged about potential modifications to the company's programmable graphing calculators."

The first InsideMobile conference brought together about 100 developers, product managers, entrepreneurs and even some hobbyists to discuss the future of mobile.

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