Murdoch’s New iPaper: One Last Tragic Roll Of The Digital Dice When all you own is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. Grim numbers point to the end of the venture capital era I’d be interested to see a bit more data showing what the 7 and 5 year trends are as well, [...]
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In response to several comments, I’ve just extracted my discussion of direct and indirect causality from my recent article on why “which licence” is now the wrong question in understanding open source communities. The discussion can found as the essay Direct and Indirect Causality. I’m keen to get it fixed up so your comments are [...]
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Hungarian Parliament, originally uploaded by webmink. My best wishes to all my friends attending the OpenOffice.org conference in Budapest this week. With all of the ups and downs and pluses and minuses of the OpenOffice.org project, it is still entirely remarkable what it has achieved over the decade since Sun made it open source, most [...]
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Vanguard Records Sounds of Summer MP3 Sampler Not 100% to my taste, but some of the tracks are very good (I like Robert Cray and Stacy Clark) but the whole thing is likely to have different appeal for different people so go grab it! Amazon US, so US accounts only. (tags: Amazon MP3 music)
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Some ancient source code given away freely by Sun in 1984 turned out to have a non-Free-software licence all these years, upsetting the licensing purity of glibc and everything built with it.
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Google Code Blog: An update on JavaOne Google pulls all their people out of JavaOne. That’s going to be a big hole in the agenda since they employ all the good speakers… (well, most of them) The Saga of Sun RPC Bradley Kuhn’s recollections of the middle of the process – worth reading along with [...]
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The long, sordid tale of Sun RPC, abbreviated somewhat, to protect the guily and the irresponsible. One of the long-running projects I had at Sun was to get the (pre-GPL, permissive) license on Sun RPC changed so that GNU/Linux could become Free software at last after decades of quietly using Sun RPC under a non-Free [...]
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The debate over the demise of “Open Core” has led to a reprise of “which open source license is best” arguments again. But the real driving force is not the licence; it’s the equality of participants.
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Jabber Support at WordPress.com This is outstanding; I can now have WordPress ping me when someone comments on my blog (as well as subscribing to other blogs to see when they are updated). Lovely feature, thanks WordPress. JCP EC minutes: December 4-5, 2007 By way of a bookmark as I am sure I will need [...]
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Just a reminder that, in addition to this blog, I still maintain an aggregator over at webmink.net which collects all the posts I make from various places. If you read mainly through a feed reader, you may prefer to follow webmink.net as that way you’ll also see all the posts I make on ComputerWorldUK as [...]
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