Wednesday May 14, 2008 links for 2008-05-14
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Cory's new book has hit Amazon UK. Time to grab a copy.
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I've previously found that hearing poems read by their author adds a new dimension to their meaning. Hearing TS Eliot read The Waste and was transformative. So I'm looking forward to this arriving.
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While I think this correctly diagnoses the problem I think the solution is to be found elsewhere than trying to make a developer community hire a PHB.
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Truly excellent. The lesson to be learned is that the best way to get Java everywhere was to work with the community rather than expect the community to work with Sun. Let's hope that lesson sticks and spreads.
Tuesday May 13, 2008 links for 2008-05-13
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Mark explains why controlling none of the components has no bearing on his ability to control the release cycle for Ubuntu.
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Dalibor gets quoted straight off the blocks. The article itself seems to lack insight, unfortunately.
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This article is depressingly ignorant of history. Clearly the author is unaware of the history of Tomcat, or of any of Sun's open source activities around OpenOffice.org, NetBeans, Mozilla etc etc.
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Very informative graphic that shows clearly why maize-grown biofuel may well be more of a problem than a solution.
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Students who review OpenSolaris or NetBeans can win prizes from Sun.
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The blogging guidelines move to v2.0 and end up as a great guiding light for all our interactions in the virtual world.
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The awards are up for nomination again.
Friday May 09, 2008 links for 2008-05-09
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Gordon's argument here will warm the hearts of Apache activists, but I suspect Free software fundamentalists will still demand more protections. I'm in the middle; it takes both stick and carrot, in my view.
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What a week! OpenJDK 6 is now in Ubuntu, Fedora AND RHEL. Totally delighted.
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"Accurate numbers aren't any more useful than ones you make up."
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Huge congratulations to the OpenOffice.org team on this milestone. I am especially excited to see a high-quality native Mac version included on release day. Is that the first LGPLv3 software for the Mac?
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Oh excellent, this is the one feature I missed from Keynote. Can't wait for it to be ready.
Thursday May 08, 2008 links for 2008-05-08
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Very interesting history of postings on Groklaw about Sun. Now, let's see, when did I start this job... ah yes :-)
Sunday May 04, 2008 Meet Me At JavaOne 2008
If you're attending JavaOne this year, do come to my session on Wednesday at 2:50pm. It's T-7064 and I will be talking about the Adoption-Led Market and the challenges it brings to the open source and free software community of communities. It's in room 305.
Alternatively, come to the Thirsty Bear on Tuesday evening around 8pm and I'll see you at the open source un-BOF for chat, food and drink.
Saturday May 03, 2008
Thursday May 01, 2008
Wednesday April 30, 2008 links for 2008-04-30
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Create a system, create the game that plays it. Apparently it's time to move on from the "internet" system to the "legal" system...
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This seems to encapsulate the whole problem.
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Q & A with me in ZDNet UK. Good stuff, Adrian.
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At last. My Java apps are running much faster so far.
Tuesday April 29, 2008 links for 2008-04-29
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Anywhere in San Francisco we can get some of these to try next week? I'd love to have a bowl of them at our open source party at the Thirsty Bear on Tuesday evening.
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A very welcome respite from all the knocking Sun is getting right now from the people afraid we might actually succeed.
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Another country standardises on ODF. I wonder how many it takes before there's demonstrated "demand"? I expect the response to be "they can always use a plug-in" but really that's just insulting.
Monday April 28, 2008 links for 2008-04-28
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As if the fact the event if free isn't enough!
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The depths to which humanity can sink seem to have no bounds.
Sunday April 27, 2008 links for 2008-04-27
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Anyone tried this? It looks like an interesting way to get photos straight onto Flickr from JavaOne, for example.
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More power to her.
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This is something I've never tried - looks worth a weekend excursion some time I am in the Bay Area.
Saturday April 26, 2008 links for 2008-04-26
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This doesn't sound good.
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Wow. Great idea will put programmatic manipulation of ODF within everyone's reach.
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Something new to add to my next business card.
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JavaOne has a posse.
Friday April 25, 2008 links for 2008-04-25
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If you live in Australia or New Zealand please do come to this event where I'll be delivering the opening keynote. If there are enough you are interested, let's also go for a long table meal at The Sailor's Thai in The Rocks...
Wednesday April 23, 2008 links for 2008-04-23
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Congratulations, Steve (and nice kilt).
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It's not just AGPL. There are other licenses (like CDDL for instance) that are blocked for business reasons that get dressed up as social reasons. Seems OSI is not a respected arbiter of license soundness in this case.
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This is unspeakably cool, and very soothing to watch.
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"A truly public specification can be upgraded by the public at large, provided the suggestion is a sound one."
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Another Paul Graham essay that is so good that it sounds obvious. Here he's asserting that the best plan for a startup is to behave like a non-profit and just serve people. Nicely complementary to the 37Signals video I posted here recently.
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A shameful indictment of DRM as another DRM-using-customer-hating-corporation changes strategy and leaves its customers to twist in the wind. Just don't buy stuff that's got digital restriction management as this event is inevitable for all services.
Tuesday April 22, 2008 links for 2008-04-22
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This looks like a positive step, likely to bring new money into iStock and make it flow more freely towards photographers. I'll need to resume uploads (I need the rejection slips!)
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Steve Pepper continues his blogging experiment.
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Given the E51 is now standard issue for Sun in Europe I guess lots of people will need one of these, given Nokia neither made the thing charge from the mini-USB connector it uses to connect to the computer nor included this dongle.
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As I recall, MySQL has had non-Free software in its service/subscription cloud for quite a long time, so I'm a bit puzzled why it's suddenly become an issue. Maybe as part of Sun there's no longer cause for a suspension of judgment?
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... is just do it and don't be greedy.
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Strength or weakness of the open source model? My take is it will just validate Google without ptoviding serious competition since it offers no deployer security (as in confidence, not as in hackproofness).
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I think this is a leap forward and changes the nature of the IDE. I wonder if I can use it to program Python?
