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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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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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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Minimal Competence: Data Access, Data Ownership, and Sharecropping “The ability to get out the data you put in is the bare minimum. All of it, at high fidelity, in a reasonable amount of time. Asking people to accept anything else is sharecropping. It’s a bad deal.” — Interesting to have this come round again after […]
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OpenStack Community Update Excellent progress is being made in the OpenStack community, including implementation of support for VirtualBox, which I asked for in both the OpenStack and VirtualBox interviews on FOLSS Weekly. Huge thanks to Justin Santa Barbara. Tru Thoughts Jazz MP3 Sampler Pretty decent selection of jazz tracks free to US account-holders on Amazon […]
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Electronic Voting Researcher Arrested Over Anonymous Source “About four months ago, Ed Felten blogged about a research paper in which Hari Prasad, Rop Gonggrijp, and I detailed serious security flaws in India’s electronic voting machines. Indian election authorities have repeatedly claimed that the machines are tamperproof, but we demonstrated important vulnerabilities by studying a machine […]
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Lawsuit Raises Questions about Open Invention Network, Linux Foundation Tweets get as much coverage as interviews these days, it seems. Tweets lack nuance and usually lack context and do not form a good basis for journalism (or indeed spin-doctoring) without additional discussion in person. The author of this article quotes what I said on Twitter […]
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Google vs Oracle ≠ open vs closed, or good vs evil While Matthew Aslett’s essay (above) is another useful contribution to the discussion that I recommend you read, his bias towards a commercial view of open source leads him to dismiss the emerging pattern and assert that each crocodile attack is an isolated incident that […]
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Oracle/Google: the strategy behind Sun, Oracle and the OSS implications This whole Oracle-copies-SCO mess has many degrees of complexity – historical, legal, technical, political and personal – and I personally think there’s little point engaging in speculation about outcomes and strategies until more of the cards are on the table. Having said that, there are […]
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