Archive for April, 2010
Microsoft Evangelist: GPL strips consumer of all their rights
Microsoft “Architect Evangelist” Josh Holmes: [Microsoft signing the Joomla Contributor Agreement is] a clear demonstration of how far Microsoft has come in it’s commitment to OSS projects. Now, I’ve got my own issues with the GPL as I think that it strips the consumer of all of their rights but that’s for a different discussion. [...]
My Theory: What you don’t say says a lot
Miguel de Icaza has offered up two theories on Apple’s recent change preventing non-Apple toolchain development: Theory 1: The Business Case Here, Mr. de Icaza argues that Flash’s “killer feature” is that the same code that ran on the iPhone could run on other devices, and therefore hurt Apple’s dominant position in the market. Under [...]
Chris Dixon: Tradeoff Between Open and Closed
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Open Source, Propriatery Technology on April 26, 2010
Interesting reading from Chris Dixon on the tradeoff between open and closed, where Mr. Dixon takes a look at a Harvard Business School paper “Opening Platforms: How, When and Why?” by Thomas R Eisenmann, et. al. Information is Beautiful This chart is from Mr. Eisenmann’s paper, where he is particular in what he considers “Open”: A platform is [...]
ZDNet Asia: Open Source is no longer sexy
Posted by Jason in Open Source on April 23, 2010
As long as I’m around Open Source can’t help but to be at least a little sexy just by osmosis. Hey-yo! Anyway, good to see ZDNet Asia is as clueful as ZDNet Not Asia on Open Source: Today, open source headlines have trickled to just a handful a month, compared to the old days when there [...]
Socrates on Free Software
Posted by Jason in Free Software on April 23, 2010
Via MyGnuLinux: ANTIPHON: I believe that you are a fair man. I do not consider you wise, though. I even think that you know this yourself, since you do not receive any money for your teaching. Your clothes, however, or your house, or any other of your possessions, which you think that may be of [...]
1 Django Developer = 2 C# ASP.NET Developers
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Propriatery Technology on April 23, 2010
Python + Django vs. C# + ASP.NET: Productivity Showdown: Discussions and Conclusion Given our development processes we found the average productivity of a single Django developer to be equivalent to the output generated by two C# ASP.NET developers. Given equal-sized teams, Django allowed our developers to be twice as productive as our ASP.NET team. I [...]
Proof in Steam of Linux Support?
Oh please! Phoronix is reporting Proof In Steam’s Mac Client of Linux Support with this tasty tidbit they found: #!/bin/bash # figure out the absolute path to the script being run a bit # non-obvious, the ${0%/*} pulls the path out of $0, cd’s into the # specified directory, then uses $PWD to figure out [...]
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