Nothing and Some More

RIAA President Hilary Rosen Speaks to P2P Community (or the full speech)

Rosen explained that the interests of recording artists are threatened by P2P technology. "This is an industry of advances, not royalties," she said. "A record company executive once said to me: 'If an artist of mine gets a royalty, I haven't done my job at negotiation time."

Courtney Love does the math

Kent M. Pitman Answers On Lisp And Much More

Of course, people there spoke Spanish, but fortunately I did, too. They showed me some of their code, and I was immediately struck by the fact that all the language keywords were in English.
"Doesn't that bother you?" I asked. But the person I was talking to was quite a thoughtful person and he immediately responded this way: "Do you know how to read music?" "A little," I said. "Have you seen the notations on music like forte, sotto voce, and so on?" I nodded. "Does it bother you that they are in Italian?" "No," I had to admit. His point was to make me see that it could be viewed as part of the charm and history of the notation. He was, perhaps, unusually forgiving. But this was in the late 1970s, when everyone who had access to computers was far too excited about just plain having them to care about subtle issues of whose culture got too much say in the design of a world-wide phenomenon.

Perl Journal Online (via LWN)

Mentors.
Seems like Tage Danielsson is not translated in english yet.