Our 3rd episode discussion points were varied indeed!  We shared our opinion on whether the take down notice that Mark recieved was indeed valid, and why was this Orwellian approach was taken, instead of going to the source of the website in Russia.

We also spent some time discussing the source code that Microsoft had recently contributed to the open source community and the implications of this.  Should the community devise a strategy for future interaction with Microsoft? As well, given that they were pursuing patent issues with Buffaloe, it seems that they give with one hand and take with the other.

We concluded with a brief discussion on CMS's such as Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress vs traditional web design tools such as Dreamweaver and other Adobe products.

Darlene also touched on a podcast she had listened to about OpenEMR, the open source medical records database program.  It was good to hear from an end user (in this case a pediatrician from New Mexico)  www.hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr0405.mp3

Download episode 3 here