Do you know anything about the early history of Microsoft?

Was Joel working for Microsoft during its early history?

Yes. He was responsible for VBA in Excel, amongst other things.

If you aren't doing it to make money, and are just doing it for the liability protection, in court that liability protection would be found to not apply to your non-corporation posing as corporation.

to clarify, it would be to make money. Just a small bootstrapped development house where I can try a lot of ideas and have them either succeed or fail quickly.

Huh? You can literally dump photos to it and just upload them across the internet to your desktop, as long as you have a wifi connection (you mentioned writing emails, which would require wifi as well).

Back away, SHARK!

Just pointing out why the GPLv3 is nothing but a pointless complication: as long as your app doesn't come installed on the iPhone by default, it can be licensed GPLv3; Apple can sign the binary, and, as the iPhone is the only platform your app is made for, you bypass the whole 'tivoization' clause.

Are you crazy? You can just set a -1 funny modifier (I set -2, Slashdot's meme humor rampant and unbearable). If you do that, and browse sorted by highest score, Slashdot has by far the best comments anywhere on the net, aside from certain niche newsgroups.

Well if we are talking about CO2 then you would see the opposite of Karst: CO2 stimulates plant growth tremendously.

Depending on their circumstances, it could also make sense that they would try hardest not to get pregnant at that time of the month.

pagerank is published, but patented.

Perhaps it is just because what Justin.tv is doing is innovative? They were featured on the Today Show early on as well.