At FISL in Brazil last week, I had the opportunity to speak as the co-presenter in a session about the evolution of OpenOffice.org – I think there will eventually be video of it. As Richard Hillesley observes, the developer community for that codebase was always stifled, and while there are some excellent and experienced developers [...]
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If you don’t like whingeing by frequent fliers, skip this post! I spent all day Tuesday travelling back from Brazil on TAP. Having taken four flights with them (LHR-LIS, LIS-GRU, VCP-LIS, LIS-LHR) I feel partially qualified to say that TAP are not a great airline. To recite the litany in no particular order: All the [...]
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“We the corporations” – Move to Amend A very happy 4th to all my friends in the USA! A great way to celebrate is to go consider this timely Move To Amend campaign, aimed at creating a new Amendment to the US Constitution that clarifies that corporations are not people and thus are not entitled [...]
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In a post to a private mailing list I follow, Software Conservancy chief Bradley Kuhn has confirmed that an unexpected problem highlighted recently by CASH Music is indeed a real issue for open source groups in the USA seeking to formalise non-profit status. I asked Bradley if he’d be happy to share some of the [...]
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Google Takeout Google seems committed to what I’ve long called “the freedom to leave”, and that’s giving me a lot of confidence trying out Plus. Community Standards: A Comparison of Facebook vs. Google+ Interesting discussion of the differences in the approaches Facebook and Google are taking to community self-management. Personally I find the Google approach [...]
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