Thursday June 22, 2006 links for 2006-06-23
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There are some really cool shirts here.
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( Jun 22 2006, 06:18:07 PM PDT )
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Wednesday June 21, 2006 links for 2006-06-22
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Jimmy Wales explains how Wikipedia has become more, not less open, but the NYT wasn't paying attention before and has got it backwards. Just like Larry Rosen et al did when they slammed OASIS for opening up its IP policy.
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Could be interesting - OSCON, Portland, late July.
Posted by webmink
( Jun 21 2006, 06:20:17 PM PDT )
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Tuesday June 20, 2006 Open Source Group
James reported on a rumour he'd heard recently that I was transitioning to an extended role within the scope of being Sun's Chief Open Source Officer. It's true - I'll be running our new consolidated Open Source Group. I'll be hosted by Peder Ulander in marketing (he's Sun's SVP Software Marketing) and also sitting on Rich Green's staff (he's Sun's EVP Software). By gathering together many of the people already working with open source communities across the company, I'll have a great team of experienced staff working for me.
Our job is to make sure Sun behaves cluefully in the open source communities, gets credit for doing so and generates the revenue that pays for it. As the details are confirmed I'll write some more about it here, but suffice to say Sun's dedication to free and open source software is expressing itself in the very tangible form of a great community engagement team. We now run Sun's Open Source pages, keep an eye on them!
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( Jun 20 2006, 08:09:35 AM PDT )
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Monday June 19, 2006 links for 2006-06-20
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While I was in Yosemite I picked up a poster print - but signed and numbered - of the photograph which most inspires my photography. It's by the late Galen Rowell and epitomises pre-visualisation. It looks splendid in the hallway outside.
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( Jun 19 2006, 06:17:52 PM PDT )
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UltraSPARC T1 Support in Linux
Many congratulations to Linux Torvalds and the Linux team (especially David Miller) on the release of the 2.6.17 Linux kernel with support for the UltraSPARC T1 (Niagara). Another reason to order a T2000 (or, indeed, an Opteron-based X4100) on 60-day free trial! And if you need commercial support, Canonical are offering it already for Ubuntu on UltraSPARC.
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( Jun 19 2006, 08:29:31 AM PDT )
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Saturday June 17, 2006 links for 2006-06-18
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While I'm not in favour of joining every supposed "industry alliance", this announcement looks pretty worthwhile.
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( Jun 17 2006, 06:17:32 PM PDT )
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Friday June 16, 2006 links for 2006-06-17
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Two of today's big preoccupations meet in all their mindnumbing glory.
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Presumably smells twice as much as other dogs?
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A great birthday present for OpenSolaris - a shiny new release of NexentaOS, which as you probably know is Debian's GNU-based userland with an OpenSolaris heart beating strongly inside.
Posted by webmink
( Jun 16 2006, 06:17:38 PM PDT )
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Thursday June 15, 2006 links for 2006-06-16
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Make v6 has arrived in the UK.
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This means SAML is now completely unencumbered and available for no-strings-attached royalty-free implementation. Ought to make Apache and other F/OSS communities happy.
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Copying McNealy one last time.
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A huge list of contributors gets much-deserved recognition at OpenSolaris.
Posted by webmink
( Jun 15 2006, 06:21:28 PM PDT )
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Birthday Gifts
I'm still in the midst of The Travel Itinerary From Hell but I have to stop for a second to wish the OpenSolaris community a happy first birthday (and do click through to see the cool graphic). While it's easier to see the formal news, and there's plenty of life on the forums and on IRC, the best indicator of health for me is to see that there have been one hundred code contributions integrated into the project.
The real test of an open source community is not the noise, it's the code, and despite OpenSolaris not quite having a public version control system yet to make contributions easy, there have been plenty of bug fixes and other code contributions. The best birthday gift an open source community can receive are code contributions and OpenSolaris has a mound of them - delightful.
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( Jun 15 2006, 02:38:43 AM PDT )
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Sunday June 11, 2006 links for 2006-06-12
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Perception is everything. Not the relative postures as well as the relative positions.
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Excellent short film shows why God doesn't just end evil with a snap of the fingers.
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( Jun 11 2006, 06:18:22 PM PDT )
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Thursday June 08, 2006 links for 2006-06-09
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"It's a pity that Google has not taken this opportunity to use ODF for importing and exporting spreadsheets. While this open standard does not have much traction yet, support from an organisation such as Google would give it a significant boost." -- Ovum
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This is good stuff.
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( Jun 08 2006, 06:18:54 PM PDT )
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Tuesday June 06, 2006 links for 2006-06-07
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The European Commission is starting a task force to study the competitiveness of the IT industry in Europe. I'll be participating with a view to promoting a F/OSS outlook, input welcome.
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No ODF? Very disappointing. Not A Team Player.
Posted by webmink
( Jun 06 2006, 06:17:44 PM PDT )
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Monday June 05, 2006 links for 2006-06-06
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Detailed and hard-hitting blogging on open technologies from Malaysia.
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In which Mark Shuttleworth and I talk about Ubuntu on SPARC, open source Java, Java SE on GNU/Linux and more.
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Perhaps "truth in labelling" will stop DRM? It will be interesting to see how much the DRM industry fights this one.
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Laura Ramsey has a round-up of lots of good news for OpenSolaris in a month many consider dominated by Java news.
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Australians use psychological weapons in the war on youth.
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Finally research into whether negotiations over beer or over coffee are better. Coffee is out on top so far.
Posted by webmink
( Jun 05 2006, 06:18:41 PM PDT )
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Sunday June 04, 2006 links for 2006-06-05
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I can see that gathering your staff sometimes is necessary, and mentoring less experienced staff is important, but valuing attendance over effectiveness seems crazy in 2006 - the network is the office.
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The reason the web is changing the world, in a nutshell
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"International standards bodies' unanimous approval of ISO/IEC 26300 moves OASIS OpenDocument Format to being the official XML document format. It is now unlikely that ISO will adopt Microsoft's Open XML document format." -- Gartner
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( Jun 04 2006, 06:17:43 PM PDT )
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