Wednesday November 14, 2007 links for 2007-11-14
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This gives a tiny insight into the hopelessness-driven logic that drives suicide bombers. Note religion is not involved.
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Nice article by Rich Sands shows just how much has been achieved in the year. Still more to do, though.
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Looks like a handy pocket reference for those with little background on the GPL approach to FOSS licensing.
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Fortunately ours hasn't started to do this yet...
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( Nov 14 2007, 12:27:19 AM PST )
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Tuesday November 13, 2007 links for 2007-11-13
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The Sun Bear is at risk. Let's hope the reverse stock split will help him.
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Now we can see why they want it all under the Apache license - they want to keep it closed source until such time as they feel we are worthy. BTDTGTTS.
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The nonsequiteur "you are safer when you have no privacy" virus continues to spread.
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( Nov 13 2007, 12:28:21 AM PST )
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Monday November 12, 2007 links for 2007-11-12
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Mark Pilgrim makes the point that operating systems without a package manager are so 20th century (while using lots of words that would be bleeped out on TV).
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Novell just created an interim Board for OpenSuSE - a good thing. It has a majority of Novell employees on it, something I have advised Sun against every time we've done this.
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OpenOffice.org is getting PDF/A support (that's archive-standard PDF). Another reason it's the ideal tool for archivists.
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( Nov 12 2007, 12:23:30 AM PST )
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Sunday November 11, 2007 Verse Remembered on Reading a Certain Posting on Slashdot
Epigram on Singers
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing
Should certain persons die before they sing.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from Verse and Worse
Posted by webmink
( Nov 11 2007, 01:17:47 PM PST )
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links for 2007-11-11
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"CDF can't replace ODF, according to Lilley. It wasn't designed to be used as an office format. It's good for other things." Exactly what I thought was the case. Pamela goes on to ask some of the right questions about the perpetrators.
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Joseph Stiglitz is no lightweight, and his summary of the state of the American economy is depressing reading. I believe it was the present administration's goal to make the economic hill unclimbable by a Democrat successor. It's working.
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"Microsoft said last week that it complies with international law and the law of the countries in which it operates." Asymptotically approaching illegality again.
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Says it all :-)
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Phil Collins, as muscular as ever but perhaps in need of a shave.
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Next it's a floor wax?
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Surf boards seem pretty popular items in holiday luggage so BA's decision looks unwise to my eyes.
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( Nov 11 2007, 12:21:53 AM PST )
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Saturday November 10, 2007 Glassfish gets trawler crew
Eduardo P-L has announced the membership line-up he's proposing should form the Interim Governing Board of the Glassfish community. We'll be devising a constitution to ensure that all of the contributors to the rapidly growing Glassfish community have a say in how the community is governed.
The other Board members represent a great selection of stakeholders in the user community for this application server and Eduardo has done a fine job identifying them. As for me - well, you may think it's a foregone conclusion that I'd be included, but it wasn't (and hasn't been for any of the others) and I'm honoured to have been asked to contribute.
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( Nov 10 2007, 05:55:12 AM PST )
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links for 2007-11-10
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Ready for that offhand remark next time you're in a project meeting - "I can prove that [software-name] isn't the world's largest hairball, it is number two"
Posted by webmink
( Nov 10 2007, 12:24:25 AM PST )
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Friday November 09, 2007 links for 2007-11-09
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Interesting how, in the same week that there was a big conference in Germany about adoption of ODF, the US media was focussed on anti-ODF self-publicity by an organisation with more words in its name than members.
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With so many stories like this floating around, is it any surprise tourism in the USA is way down?
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Seems Microsoft wants to join in with the accessibility work at Gnome that Sun originally led, using Novell as a proxy so that nasty GPL code doesn't sully them. Good to have them along though, and way overdue.
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An opponent of DRM could not ask for a more perfect example than this of why DRM is bad for customers and hence bad for business.
Posted by webmink
( Nov 09 2007, 12:23:27 AM PST )
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Thursday November 08, 2007 links for 2007-11-08
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FSF Europe has a system with GPL-ed chips in it to run their website.
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Larry leaving was clearly the right choice for him and the right choice for the rebirth of Sun - we need people who grok open source and believe in the opportunity it offers. Now more than ever.
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( Nov 08 2007, 12:26:25 AM PST )
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Tuesday November 06, 2007 links for 2007-11-06
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I agree totally with Dave here - the Met Police is laughing in the face of justice as they cover their asses. I wonder how any of the people involved can live with themselves?
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The author of "The Omnivore's Dilemma" seems to have catalysed early interest in the way food subsidies flow in the US and the (presumably) unintentional consequences. More to come, I am sure.
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And what's more, Red Hat has signed the Contributor Agreement for OpenJDK. How the world turns.
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... is now open. Congratulations to the team.
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Here's the first part of an interview I gave recently.
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Oh. Dear.
Posted by webmink
( Nov 06 2007, 12:23:30 AM PST )
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Monday November 05, 2007 Red Hat Joins OpenJDK
I was very pleased just now to see that Red Hat has announced they are joining the OpenJDK community to work on and use the Java implementation being developed over there. They have signed the contributor agreement as well as the OpenJDK TCK license. I hope we'll see IcedTea become an OpenJDK project as a result of this - the Classpath folk have been doing an awesome job.
Creating an environment with licensing, code and governance acceptable to groups like Red Hat was one of the primary motivations of our choices around OpenJDK, so this is fantastic news all round, and an interesting counterpoint to the approach others have taken in other projects.
Update: Interesting comments from Mark Reinhold, positivity from Mark Wielaard, congratulations from Dalibor, early coverage on JavaLobby. And later still: NetworkWorld, CMP, eWeek (quoting this blog), WRAL, CNet and TechTarget (also quoting this blog, almost) and even later: InternetNews, which includes interviews with me and Shaun Connolly of Red Hat.
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( Nov 05 2007, 07:07:27 AM PST )
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links for 2007-11-05
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Tough love
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I can see the point from both sides of the argument. Truth is, where people are involved, there will always be different opinions. The question is not how to stop that but how to move on positively afterwards.
Posted by webmink
( Nov 05 2007, 12:22:37 AM PST )
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Saturday November 03, 2007 links for 2007-11-03
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I see Scott McNealy is being award Fellowship of the British Computer Society.
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Barton George interviews all the stars at Ubuntu Live. ANd for the first time there are Ogg files too.
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( Nov 03 2007, 01:21:10 AM PDT )
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Friday November 02, 2007 links for 2007-11-02
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Dennis gets it running.
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Excellent Schneier article observes and decries the trend towards officially-endorsed lynch-mob mentalities. The worst of it all is the failure to say sorry (event to the extent of prosecuting the innocent "for causing an incident").
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I keep using this term so thought I'd post a reference for people.
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Great place to get hands-on with the (GPL-ed) Mobile & Embedded Java code.
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Good summary of what's going on from the Unix news-sheet.
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This is /so/ cool.
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This looks pretty cool, I'll have to give it a try next time I travel.
Posted by webmink
( Nov 02 2007, 01:19:51 AM PDT )
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