Briefly, I want to ensure all you avid readers, and frequent update-checkers-for-ems that I do not plan on going this long w/o an update again, but you should just subscribe to the rss feed anyway.

So, there exist these viral (copyleft) licenses for software. And, to make a long story short, I read some (and started to use it in my work for IBM). SO I get an email Friday morning to the effect of, “Michael, you are now what IBM considers ‘contaminated,’ please do not talk about your code with anyone in IBM, or look at anymore virally licensed code.” So this is a little ridiculous because as far as anyone within 3 levels of me (in the IBM Hierarchy of Power) is concerned, my work is to be open source and licensed under at least BSD, if not some other copycenter license. So, this was drama drama drama, and now it doesn’t seem relevant, either it will go away or I will have to edit my code, and then doublethink it.

Thurs, I interviewed with Amentra, and hoped to be able to say today that they had offered me a position…they haven’t contacted me yet, so I will call them tomorrow. I really hope to get an offer, because Amentra seems like an excellent company and an excellent opportunity for me.

So, in other happenings, I will be writing soon about Oppression. I have read Marilyn Frye’s take on it, and I feel that she is pretty much right with her birdcage. (more to come)

Ok, this is also from my Moral and Philosophical Issues of Gender in Society class, (which I think they renamed and shortened since I enrolled, but I’m sticking with the long, accurate title) should medicaid pay for birth control? So, for me, I’m all about women’s rights to their bodies, so I think so, also this would enable women on Medicaid to eliminate the possibility for unplanned pregnancies, so the conservatives out there, should be like “hellz yeah! fewer tax funds to the poor!” But the problem I am also wondering about is this, couldn’t this be called a sort of eugenics movement? That is, if we (the people) provide free birth control to only women on Medicaid, aren’t we saying, we REALLY want to reduce the number of offspring to poor families? If all insurance companies had to provide it it might be a little better, but even then, I think it would be most ethical to provide it for all people, the only detriment I can foresee is the cost, and a few religious collisions (that can be avoided on an individual basis by practitioners of forbidding faiths). Dr. Boxill wanted to bring up the fact that Medicaid (and may other insurance companies) pay(s) for ED remedies, which I don’t think is too cool, but ultimately less interesting than my question (-:. Oh, thanks to Boss Claws (boss @ IBM), I have started to write smilies backwards when possible, it’s neat, i think i like the wink better this way (-;