Wednesday October 31, 2007 links for 2007-10-31
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Lots of diverse and spontaneous activity going on here, without a big marketing operation making it happen.
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Another government following the growing trend.
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Great to see several individuals standing for election.
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( Oct 31 2007, 01:23:38 AM PDT )
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Tuesday October 30, 2007 JavaOne Call for Papers Open
I hear that the JavaOne Call For Papers is now open. I'd love to see a big turn-out from Java-related open source projects across the board.
The open source content my team moderated last year was so popular that open source has been made a feature of all the tracks. I also gather that there are an even larger number of non-Sun paper reviewers this year. Put together, those factors mean so your paper submissions have a high chance of acceptance. So, get going!
Posted by webmink
( Oct 30 2007, 03:48:53 PM PDT )
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links for 2007-10-30
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Seems government ministers don't get diplomatic passports.
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"...the problem was that Microsoft required schools to have licences for every PC in a school that might use its software, whether they were actually doing so or running something else." Go on, keep telling me the monopolist is reformed.
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Good move here by Mike Dillon to try to bring this unwanted litigation back to California where it belongs so that both parties can avoid wasting time and aviation fuel flying to East Texas.
Posted by webmink
( Oct 30 2007, 01:23:15 AM PDT )
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Monday October 29, 2007 DST Gap Again
Just a reminder to my American friends that the UK ended Daylight Savings on Sunday and so we are back to UTC - that means this week there's just 7 hours difference between California and the UK, for example. If you're expecting a meeting with me and I'm not there, you may wish to call and check we're both expecting the thing to happen at the same time.
Posted by webmink
( Oct 29 2007, 08:32:53 PM PDT )
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Sunday October 28, 2007 links for 2007-10-28
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Cool idea that would fit nicely into our lounge doorway :-)
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Awesome!
Posted by webmink
( Oct 28 2007, 01:19:42 AM PDT )
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Saturday October 27, 2007 links for 2007-10-27
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Great overview from O'Grady of the naming discussion in the OpenSolaris community. The discussion seems to have died down now, with general consensus that OpenSolaris needs a reference distribution (objections now are the same few voices).
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This was the closing session of the special public track we ran in our otherwise internal open source summit a few weeks ago.
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This has finally happened - you'll remember Bruno mentioned it a while back. Good news, and a gateway to wider exposure for NetBeans in the GNU/Linux communities.
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Wow, great support from Eben here - thank-you.
Posted by webmink
( Oct 27 2007, 01:22:52 AM PDT )
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Friday October 26, 2007 links for 2007-10-26
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Know any prior art that would invalidate NetApp's claims? You can contribute it here.
Posted by webmink
( Oct 26 2007, 01:26:07 AM PDT )
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Thursday October 25, 2007 links for 2007-10-25
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Dinner here Monday was excellent, although it's a little off the beaten track :-)
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The Atom RFC is published. Huge congratulations to Tim and the whole team.
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Jonathan clear and direct on the subject of the ongoing attack from NetApp.
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Great lesson-learned summary from our internal "Open Source Summit".
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This looks very cool - well worth developers across Europe registering for this by all accounts.
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Interesting reflections on open source folowing our internal Open Source Summit at Sun.
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Podcast features our "external view" panel at the internal Open Source Summit at Sun recently.
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Pamela has a balanced wait-and-see attitude to this, but all the same seems to be trending towards seeing it as needing solving by finding prior art. I'm pretty sure this has been searched before for Linux.
Posted by webmink
( Oct 25 2007, 01:23:13 AM PDT )
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Saturday October 20, 2007 links for 2007-10-20
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Just needs shackles to make the ideal corporate furniture.
Posted by webmink
( Oct 20 2007, 01:25:28 AM PDT )
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Friday October 19, 2007 links for 2007-10-19
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Not something they are shouting about, but cool nonetheless that ODF is supported in the base platform like this on the Mac.
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This looks interesting - pity there's no Mac version for me to try (my Ubuntu machine is at home).
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Good summary from Ben - I share pretty much all his views, great event. I am as disappointed as him to see the OGB members who didn't bother to come sustaining arguments around things that were covered there in their absence.
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Right there in the catalogue.
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Another ODF organisation. This is a force to be aligned with, not to fight against.
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The shameful consequences of the gerrymandering done (unsuccessfully) to try to get the unwelcome OOXML spec approved are that SC34 is now unable to operate because the new "members" only came for OOXML.
Posted by webmink
( Oct 19 2007, 01:23:33 AM PDT )
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Thursday October 18, 2007 links for 2007-10-18
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This was in response to a FOSS community member request. The real shame of it is that Amazon has been allowed to shape the market in the years it has taken to do this and their is no redress for their illegitimate action.
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Presumably these folks are hoping to leverage the DMCA to chill legitimate comment. Pretty stupid stuff, especially as my browser has to read their "source" in order to render their pages.
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I just updated my blog about the contributor agreement - seems Novell are throwing stones in glass houses.
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Watching with interest as the BBC tries to justify making its services unavailable to people who reject Microsoft's monopoly.
Posted by webmink
( Oct 18 2007, 01:22:33 AM PDT )
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Wednesday October 17, 2007 links for 2007-10-17
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My friends a colleague Liz Matthews is blogging - welcome, Liz!
Posted by webmink
( Oct 17 2007, 01:22:54 AM PDT )
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Tuesday October 16, 2007 links for 2007-10-16
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First coverage of the press/analyst event we ran along side our internal open source summit here in Santa Clara today.
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Another reaction from our Summit briefing.
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Short item about OpenJDK from Peter Galli from today's briefing.
Posted by webmink
( Oct 16 2007, 01:30:09 AM PDT )
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Sunday October 14, 2007 links for 2007-10-14
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Yep, the 2.6.23 kernel has support for the LDom virtualisation features of the UltraSPARC chipset. Already.
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Glynn Foster is doing a fine job taking notes at today's OpenSolaris Developer Summit in Santa Cruz.
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I think I had always assumed this was what happened, but it's depressing to read about all the same.
Posted by webmink
( Oct 14 2007, 01:21:54 AM PDT )
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