Wednesday April 30, 2008 links for 2008-04-30
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Create a system, create the game that plays it. Apparently it's time to move on from the "internet" system to the "legal" system...
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This seems to encapsulate the whole problem.
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Q & A with me in ZDNet UK. Good stuff, Adrian.
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At last. My Java apps are running much faster so far.
Tuesday April 29, 2008 links for 2008-04-29
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Anywhere in San Francisco we can get some of these to try next week? I'd love to have a bowl of them at our open source party at the Thirsty Bear on Tuesday evening.
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A very welcome respite from all the knocking Sun is getting right now from the people afraid we might actually succeed.
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Another country standardises on ODF. I wonder how many it takes before there's demonstrated "demand"? I expect the response to be "they can always use a plug-in" but really that's just insulting.
Monday April 28, 2008 links for 2008-04-28
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As if the fact the event if free isn't enough!
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The depths to which humanity can sink seem to have no bounds.
Sunday April 27, 2008 links for 2008-04-27
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Anyone tried this? It looks like an interesting way to get photos straight onto Flickr from JavaOne, for example.
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More power to her.
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This is something I've never tried - looks worth a weekend excursion some time I am in the Bay Area.
Saturday April 26, 2008 links for 2008-04-26
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This doesn't sound good.
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Wow. Great idea will put programmatic manipulation of ODF within everyone's reach.
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Something new to add to my next business card.
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JavaOne has a posse.
Friday April 25, 2008 links for 2008-04-25
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If you live in Australia or New Zealand please do come to this event where I'll be delivering the opening keynote. If there are enough you are interested, let's also go for a long table meal at The Sailor's Thai in The Rocks...
Wednesday April 23, 2008 links for 2008-04-23
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Congratulations, Steve (and nice kilt).
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It's not just AGPL. There are other licenses (like CDDL for instance) that are blocked for business reasons that get dressed up as social reasons. Seems OSI is not a respected arbiter of license soundness in this case.
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This is unspeakably cool, and very soothing to watch.
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"A truly public specification can be upgraded by the public at large, provided the suggestion is a sound one."
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Another Paul Graham essay that is so good that it sounds obvious. Here he's asserting that the best plan for a startup is to behave like a non-profit and just serve people. Nicely complementary to the 37Signals video I posted here recently.
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A shameful indictment of DRM as another DRM-using-customer-hating-corporation changes strategy and leaves its customers to twist in the wind. Just don't buy stuff that's got digital restriction management as this event is inevitable for all services.
Tuesday April 22, 2008 links for 2008-04-22
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This looks like a positive step, likely to bring new money into iStock and make it flow more freely towards photographers. I'll need to resume uploads (I need the rejection slips!)
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Steve Pepper continues his blogging experiment.
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Given the E51 is now standard issue for Sun in Europe I guess lots of people will need one of these, given Nokia neither made the thing charge from the mini-USB connector it uses to connect to the computer nor included this dongle.
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As I recall, MySQL has had non-Free software in its service/subscription cloud for quite a long time, so I'm a bit puzzled why it's suddenly become an issue. Maybe as part of Sun there's no longer cause for a suspension of judgment?
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... is just do it and don't be greedy.
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Strength or weakness of the open source model? My take is it will just validate Google without ptoviding serious competition since it offers no deployer security (as in confidence, not as in hackproofness).
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I think this is a leap forward and changes the nature of the IDE. I wonder if I can use it to program Python?
Sunday April 20, 2008 links for 2008-04-20
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The story explaining why Steve Pepper was motivated, after 13 excellent years as chair of the Norwegian SC34 mirror committee, to resign and to organise a public protest.
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I want one.
Saturday April 19, 2008 links for 2008-04-19
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Just waiting for this to show up in the travel policy. Managers get to travel next-day-air, the rest get 2-day or surface...
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Excellent article explains why managers mismanage experts.
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Matt stays calm and makes good points here. Ultimately, offering closed tools as part of the service cloud around an open source platform can help pay the bills only if it can be done without harming adoption.
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Benkler is great in person. Compelling both in energy and in content.
Thursday April 17, 2008
Wednesday April 16, 2008 links for 2008-04-16
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Always interesting to see who is up for these awards, they are usually eclectic and thoughtful.
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This has more legs than I thought, must be a slow news period. Note I am arguing from an adoption-led position about how there must be no artificial barriers to deployment - I am aware of the Free Software issues (warning: Sys-Con article)
Tuesday April 15, 2008 links for 2008-04-15
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Doesn't look like the grass-roots of the FOSS movement was much in evidence.
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"Awkward silences aside, we've now got a very productive engagment with the customer around delivering commercial support on a global basis to what's turned out to be the most popular database inside their development shop." Adoption-led.
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Fascinating exploration of the dynamics and evolution of community governance. Having see how the jump to formal governance affected OpenSolaris, we're now taking out time over OpenJDK, and this study supports that approach.
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Let's see if 2008 can make OSI more relevant again.
Monday April 14, 2008 links for 2008-04-14
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Love the yodeling.
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Yet another global endorsement.
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Finally gave in and bought Tina's new album from Amazon MP3. Turns out it is just wonderful.
Thursday April 10, 2008 links for 2008-04-10
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I wondered why someone wasn't receiving messages I was sending him. Seems Google simply tosses any message with a .exe file in it in /dev/nul
