Monday August 30, 2004 Sun Embraces Roller Even More
I'm delighted that Dave Johnson has accepted a job at Sun working on the Roller weblogger for us all. Roller is the 100% pure Java system this blog and the rest of blogs.sun.com runs on. I think this is good for Sun, good for the Java community and great news for blogging and I'm excited to see what the future holds.
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( Aug 30 2004, 07:38:45 AM PDT )
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Thursday August 19, 2004 Liberty and Commerce
A holiday snap to say I am back - we took a Dolittle-Planned Break the last 10 days. This photo was taken from Battery Park. I'm sure I'm not the first person to note how the statue and the cranes echo one another, but it made me think of work.
How? It reminded me that liberty is active, not passive. We're liberated to do something, not just released from something. Taking away one person's liberty just to create a trophy for another is the wrong answer. This, for me, is at the heart of thinking about open source, which is about liberty, not licenses. It's one of the paths to software freedom, to the liberty to make one's living through software. As I discussed at OSCON and probably will again this weekend at EuroFOO, there's not just one 'river of freedom', there are several, each flowing through their own communities and landscapes. That's the key thing to remember harmonising the different approaches, such as open standards and open source or Java and open source.
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( Aug 19 2004, 11:38:16 AM PDT )
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Tuesday August 03, 2004 OSCON Round-up
I just posted a round-up and ramble on OSCON over on my personal blog. Posted by webmink
( Aug 03 2004, 07:03:14 AM PDT )
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The best technical conference in the world?
I got my invitation to Colorado Software Summit this morning - can't wait to get there again at the end of October, the place is wonderful and the conference continues to deliver technical content with no marketing. They have been 'no-fluff-just-stuff'-ing for years, I wonder if those guys actually got the idea from CSS? They have a great line-up of speakers again, plenty on Java, XML and web services, and as usual it will be small sessions repeated multiple times so you can attend everything you want to - no hard choices.
I have my usual keynote, as does John Soyring from IBM, but I also hear that my friend Tim Bray will be delivering a keynote - awesome! Something controversial I trust?
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( Aug 03 2004, 06:59:08 AM PDT )
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