Friday March 31, 2006 links for 2006-04-01
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I know many companies which specialise in the Marketing Biathlon
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Excellent articulation of all the issues. Can't comment on whether the conclusion is right, of course.
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Way cool application, like Google Earth with more features and no adverts, and all as a fast Java application. [thanks, Dalibor]
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Nice insight from The Inquirer.
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Not one but TWO finalists in the Best Open Source Solution category have heavy invovlvement from developers paid by Sun - OpenSolaris and NetBeans.
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Wookieepedia. How cute.
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( Mar 31 2006, 05:20:00 PM PST )
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Thursday March 30, 2006 links for 2006-03-31
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They don't say which condors are involved (they are all numbered) but this is great news.
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This is the HQ for the NetBeans team - seems to be indicative of success. Despite everything I hear from Sun's competitors and detractors, NetBeans seems to go from strength to strength when you look at the raw facts.
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( Mar 30 2006, 05:19:56 PM PST )
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Wednesday March 29, 2006 Open Source Translation
One of the biggest reasons open source software is having such a huge impact in the world is that it empowers smaller cultural groups to have software localised for them. No matter how large a corporation may be, the economics of commercial software mean it's just impractical to even consider localisation for the vast majority of languages and locales around the world. On the other hand, all it takes with an open source community is a motivated local. I describe open source as globally localised and never cease to be impressed by the sheer power of the OpenOffice.org localisation community.
Of course, getting it right takes more than just enthusiasm. My conversations with the local Brazilian localisation team made it clear that they also had a passion for getting it right with respect to local culture too, and that they longed for access to the proper tools. So I am really pleased to be able to welcome the new Open Translation website that Sun just launched. It provides tools, resources and - most importantly - a support community for people who want to localise open source software. Makes "global localisation" a more achievable goal
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( Mar 29 2006, 02:30:06 PM PST )
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Monday March 27, 2006 links for 2006-03-28
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I'm not entirely sure who come across worst here, but the story is a new classic of customer support. [ex O'Grady]
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This has been common knowledge around here for months - we're all assuming it's going in the old Sephora unit. Another drain on the family budget, and bad news for John Lewis (the current Apple retailer in West Quay).
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David is spot on with his interpretation and messages about Digital Restriction Management here, but there's no way the "pro-DRM" lobby will use this term so ultimately it's doomed to fail as an epithet (although it may catch on among us radicals).
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"Indeed, some Sun officials noted that although Sun has not officially joined the Eclipse Foundation, the company is participating in the Eclipse community, with a Glassfish plug-in and support for Matisse ... via a deal with Genuitec"
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( Mar 27 2006, 05:18:41 PM PST )
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Saturday March 25, 2006 links for 2006-03-26
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"... the objections by the FBI and Pentagon were partly over software known as Snort ..." - which last time I looked was freely available, including source, at snort.org; someone somewhere is missing the point.
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"... there are experts who claim Linux violates our intellectual property ... we owe it to our shareholders to have a strategy." -- Steve Ballmer [thanks, Florian]
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First part of the UK to enshrine the right for us to go out to a pub or restaurant without being forced to breathe smoke from selfish, suicidial smokers. People who think a right is being removed by this need their heads (and lungs) examined.
Posted by webmink
( Mar 25 2006, 05:18:23 PM PST )
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Friday March 24, 2006 links for 2006-03-25
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Transcript of the speech - totally worth your time to read it.
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T2000 passes punishment test with flying colours and few scars.
Posted by webmink
( Mar 24 2006, 05:19:20 PM PST )
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Wednesday March 22, 2006 links for 2006-03-23
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They could be intending to disrupt and delay ISO ratification of ODF. Or maybe they are just there to help smooth the process? You choose.
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It includes bindings to allow use of JXTA from Mono/.NET - the power of open source.
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It's live! The first public computing utility. All you need is a Paypal account and an application. Oh, and a US IP address (for now).
Posted by webmink
( Mar 22 2006, 05:19:03 PM PST )
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Tuesday March 21, 2006 links for 2006-03-22
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See what the news will look like if Massachusetts does and doesn't adopt ODF.
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Wonderful parable for what happens when the industry of today guesses the world of tomorrow, even mostly correctly.
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Cool competition to win a cool t-shirt.
Posted by webmink
( Mar 21 2006, 05:18:37 PM PST )
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GPLed Chips
The big news today is that we've entered the era of open source hardware. Sun's OpenSPARC team made the source code to the UltraSPARC T1 chip available today, licensed under the GPL v2, and you can go right now and get it in all it's 70Mb of glory. There is also everything you need to explore it - source browsing online, simulation tools and Solaris images.
Making the source code to a chip available like this has a different dynamic to making the source of a pure software product available. Having a single source-base doesn't seem appropriate; the commons here is likely to be distributed. It's largely untrodden ground so none of us knows quite what to expect, but we anticipate a "free market" of code, where many different interested parties each create a design of their own based on the OpenSPARC code and then make it available under the GPL. The result will be an expanding pool of experience and innovation that everyone can benefit from. I'm excited to be pushing back boundaries with OpenSPARC, anything could happen!
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( Mar 21 2006, 10:39:18 AM PST )
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Saturday March 18, 2006 links for 2006-03-19
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William Gibson, no less, says the film is brilliant. The book was unsettling yet excellent, I'll have to gather the courage to see the film.
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( Mar 18 2006, 05:19:22 PM PST )
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Friday March 17, 2006 Left Texas
My tour of duty in Texas is finally over and I'm back in California for a few days. I was honoured to be invited to speak at the "Third Fridays" series organised by MTBC in Dallas. I spoke about the connectedness of society, about the unstoppable trend towards open source, explained the two sides of the glass of open source, characterised open source for vendors as a shift toward monetisation at the point of value and described open source for developers as "connected capitalism". For those who asked, my slides are now over on mediacast.
Posted by webmink
( Mar 17 2006, 10:56:37 PM PST )
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links for 2006-03-18
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Bruce's speech was the highlight of SXSWi for me, worth the ticket price in its own right. This article includes a link to the MP3 of the talk, I recommend you kick back and listen to it for 45 minutes, it's gold-dust.
Posted by webmink
( Mar 17 2006, 05:20:21 PM PST )
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Wednesday March 15, 2006 links for 2006-03-16
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This looks cool - a comic-book explaining copyright law. On order.
Posted by webmink
( Mar 15 2006, 05:20:40 PM PST )
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Tuesday March 14, 2006 links for 2006-03-15
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Both a fascinating snapshot into the actual growth of NetBeans, and an insight into the perils of letting journalists meddle with statistics.
Posted by webmink
( Mar 14 2006, 05:22:40 PM PST )
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