- What community?
If you’re interested in the Tizen project, take a look at Dave Neary’s well-founded scepticism. The whole project has the sound of a force-fit that will lead to a poor community experience. A poor community experience is often a symptom of deeper malaise that can mean project failure. I remember doing a similar double-take when I first looked at the Symbian proposals, guessing they were from a corporate mind rather than based on actual experience of open source communities. - OpenStack Foundation on the horizon
Good overview of the dynamics of RackSpace’s Damascus Road conversion to wanting a Foundation for OpenStack. I have reliable sources telling me RackSpace was rushed into this by a prominent community member starting a foundation without RackSpace – presumably a fork under another name.
I’m pleased RackSpace has learned from history and decided to do it themselves. That decision will make the community stronger, avoid unnecessary division and probably make RackSpace’s influence greater than they would have achieved by attempting to retain control. I hope Andy Oram is right and they do intend to build the governance by community consensus, though. In open source, trade control for influence, since control is illusory. - fOSSa 2011 Conference – Lyon, France, 26-27-28th October 2011
I’ll be speaking at the end of day 2 of this conference. It’s free, please come along!
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- Time zone database shut down
This is just crazy. Copyright simply doesn’t apply to facts you get from reading books, even copyrighted books. Hopefully there will be a concerted community response from some corporations rich enough to fight back. - Steve Jobs: Arab-American, Buddhist, Psychedelic Drug User, and Capitalist World-Changer
Most of the obituaries I have seen were of-a-kind, but this article really highlights the facts that make Jobs success all the more remarkable and his example all the more valuable. As if it needed amplification on either.
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