Tech Week in Review for September 1st

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Why Lodsys is trying it’s hardest to keep Apple and Google out of the patent lawsuits (Via Groklaw)

How do I secure my companies name on Twitter? (Via Answers.onstartups.com)
The rise and fall of the independent developer (Via Furbo)
Bots are crawling new domains registrations and namesquatting twitter handles (Via Ross Duggan)
Startups: How do I tactfully respond to friends and family who say “Get a real job”? (Via Answers.onstartups.com)
Is stealth really the best way to build a startup? (Via ReadWriteWeb)
Ten lessons from Githubs first year (Via Tom-Preston Warner)
Want to get things done? Be “reasonably unreasonable” (Via O’reilly Radar)
Rails 3.1 has been released! (Via The Official Rails release blog)
First employee of a startup? You’re probably getting screwed (Via itlater)
Kernel.org was hacked - should we be concerned? (Via Kernel.com)
Why I’ll never work for a big company again (Via Ken Cochrane)
How to f over a git repo - or not. (Via git-blame)
Why Governments don’t get startups (Via Steve Blank)

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