• Introduction
  Soon after the AMD Athlon64 was released I bought a computer incorporating one with the intent of learning its assemly language. It took some time, but I finally got around to a little experimenting. Although AMD make their excellent Programmer's Manuals available on-line for free, I found it very difficult to find other information. Specifically I could have done with some simple examples showing how exactly to get the processor from reset to long (i.e. 64-bit) mode. Plenty of sites give this sort of detail for protected mode on the i386 but I couldn't find much about the x86_64 processors.After much experimentation, and many false leads, I managed to figure it out so I thought that it might be useful to others if I described what I came up with. Th...
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• The Emerging Economics of Open Source Software
  AbstractOpen Source developers have, perhaps without conscious intent, created a new and surprisingly successful economic paradigm for the production of software. Examining that paradigm can answer a number of important questions. It's not immediately obvious how Open Source1 works economically. Probably the worst consequence of this lack of understanding is that many people don't understand how Open Source could be economically sustainable, and some may even feel that its potential negative effect upon the proprietary software industry is an overall economic detriment. Fortunately, if you look more deeply into the economic function of software in general, it's easy to establish that Open Source is both sustainable and of tremendous benefit to the ...
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