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Jansenism was a 17th -- 18th century Catholic religious and political movement centered in Bourbon France. Cornelius Jansen, Bishop of Ypres in the early 17th century, attempted to reconcile Roman Catholic and Calvinist theology. Jansen preserved the Mass and sacraments, but reinterpreted them...

I'm throwing out this WI as a first step towards a TL where Microsoft accepts open source principles as early as the 1980's. One of the major outcomes of this TL will be Microsoft becoming a service provider and systems solution company, not unlike Canonical, Red Hat, or IBM. Its...

WI Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, decided to create a Minix-derived kernel for a chipset other than the x86 Intel family and clones? Perhaps he might have chosen the Motorola 68x series, or develop a kernel for an entirely new microprocessor family. The first Linux kernel was...

The new tech buzzword seems to be cloud computing. This is not a new idea. Terminal timesharing on mainframes and minicomputers was the dominant form of computing before personal computers and the internet. The notion of accessing and sharing data remotely through terminals predates the...