Windows on XO

Lord help us. Microsoft is putting Windows on the OLPC box. Note the added memory.

We Need To Fix The News Media, Not Just Social Media Part I by Harold August 10, 2018 A substantially similar version of this appeared on the blog of my employer, Public Knowledge. Focusing blame Google and Facebook for the decline of in-depth…
No, California Net Neutrality Law Did Not "Nail" Veterans -- Carriers Are Using Vets as Pawns. by Harold March 26, 2021 It's a cliche villain scene: "Don't force me to kill the hostages. Unless you do as I say, their blood is on your hands." While…
How Not To Train Your Agency, Or Why The FTC Is Toothless. by Harold March 15, 2019 You know your agency is pathetic at its job when Tea Party Republicans tell you to go harder on industry -- especially in a Republican…
Why Platform Regulation Is Both Necessary and Hard. by Harold July 17, 2018 This is the first blog in a series on regulating digital platforms. As digital platforms have become increasingly important in our everyday lives, we’ve…
CPNI Is More Than Just Consumer Privacy -- How To Apply It To Digital Platforms. by Harold July 30, 2018 This is the fourth blog post in a series on regulating digital platforms. A substantially similar version of this was published by my employer Public…
So What The Heck *IS* A Digital Platform? by Harold July 18, 2018 This is the second blog in a series on regulating digital platforms. A (less snaky) version first appeared on the blog of my employer, Public…

About Stearns

Howard Stearns works at High Fidelity, Inc., creating the metaverse. Mr. Stearns has a quarter century experience in systems engineering, applications consulting, and management of advanced software technologies. He was the technical lead of University of Wisconsin's Croquet project, an ambitious project convened by computing pioneer Alan Kay to transform collaboration through 3D graphics and real-time, persistent shared spaces. The CAD integration products Mr. Stearns created for expert system pioneer ICAD set the market standard through IPO and acquisition by Oracle. The embedded systems he wrote helped transform the industrial diamond market. In the early 2000s, Mr. Stearns was named Technology Strategist for Curl, the only startup founded by WWW pioneer Tim Berners-Lee. An expert on programming languages and operating systems, Mr. Stearns created the Eclipse commercial Common Lisp programming implementation. Mr. Stearns has two degrees from M.I.T., and has directed family businesses in early childhood education and publishing.

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