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In the Venn diagram of users, the intersection of “Mac” and “Twitter” appears to be quite big. Why this is, I’m not sure, but it’s true that many Mac users rely on the short-message broadcasting service for their day-to-day lives.

There’s some concern in both communities that the flood of new tweets about announcements at tomorrow’s WWDC will break the back of the Twitter infrastructure. Their uptime has been mostly in the 90s this month, with some features still disabled for performance reasons.

Do you think it will hold up? What will do you if Twitter grinds itself into metal shavings?

A poll and results, plus more updates (!!) all after the jump.

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The influential Walt Mossberg has entered into the browser fray and declared a winner: Mozilla’s Firefox:

My verdict is that Firefox 3.0 is the ideal Web browser out there right now, and that it tops the current versions of both IE and Safari in features, speed and security.

… Source:The Open Road

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Microsoft has evolved in its stance toward open source, but its current hiccup with the Sandcastle project calls into question just how well it comprehends the obligations open source imposes. Microsoft created its CodePlex site to host open-source software, and has been careful to abide by open-source rules, submitting its licenses to the Open Source Initiative for approval.

Yet as Sandcastle demonstrates, Microsoft still has a long ways to go before it demonstrates that it comprehends and is willing to stand behind the obligations of open source. The Sandcastle project went live on January 8. Several months later, it still isn’t providing source code, a key tenet of the CodePlex hosting requirements.

This isn’t a matter of holding Microsoft to a third-party standard. It’s a matter of holding Microsoft to its own standards. Microsoft declares CodePlex to be an open-source project hosting site:

(Credit: Microsoft)

The CodePlex terms of use require the following conditions for CodePlex-hosted projects:

… Source:The Open Road

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Microsoft has evolved in its stance toward open source, but its current hiccup with the Sandcastle project calls into question just how well it comprehends the obligations open source imposes. Microsoft created its CodePlex site to host open-source software, and has been careful to abide by open-source rules, submitting its licenses to the Open Source Initiative for approval.

Yet as Sandcastle demonstrates, Microsoft still has a long ways to go before it demonstrates that it comprehends and is willing to stand behind the obligations of open source. The Sandcastle project went live on January 8. Several months later, it still isn’t providing source code, a key tenet of the CodePlex hosting stipulations.

This isn’t a matter of holding Microsoft to a third-party standard. It’s a matter of holding Microsoft to its own standards. Microsoft declares CodePlex to be an open-source project hosting site:

(Credit: Microsoft)

The CodePlex terms of use require the following conditions for CodePlex-hosted projects:

… Source:The Open Road

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