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.
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Is this more in the ongoing saga of LF v. Sun sniping (which is childish on both sides regardless of who started it)?
Despite what Joe Barr thinks there was a fairly good representation of grass-roots at the summit - I think it could be better, but it there where plenty of representatives of projects rather than corporations (although there were plenty of those too, and a few from Sun too).
I'm not sure why Joe felt it was all about big iron, since there was a whole track dedicated to Desktop, and another to Mobile.
Posted by Paul Cooper on April 15, 2008 at 09:13 AM PDT #