Archive for category Free Software
Knowing what you like
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Linux on June 8, 2010
If you know what you like – and what you like happens to be reading jackassed misinformed personal attacks , then the GNOME Foundation mailing list seldom disappoints. Personally, I love how someone – purely on incorrect speculation - can construct a personal attack, a sweeping generalized attack on the larger community, lay blame for corporate sponsor pull-out and [...]
F-Spot Out of Ubuntu
Posted by Jason in Free Software on May 14, 2010
Fantastic news! I first caught wind of this from I’Been to Ubuntu: F-Spot has been voted off the island by developers at UDS this week. The Mono application will be replaced by Shotwell, written in Vala. Since the only other Mono application I see in the default install is Tomboy, would it make sense to conspire to kick [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
On being a minority
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Novell, Propriatery Technology on April 21, 2010
Here’s an item I was eloquently regaling the table with last night: After the whole Apple 3.3.1 “Can’t develop with non-approved toolchains” debacle a lot of people set up a Google Docs spreadsheet to list the tons of amazing apps that would be impacted by this rule change. There were calls for help all over twitter and [...]
Matt Zimmerman on Mono
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Microsoft on April 20, 2010
Interesting interview with Matt Zimmerman, Canonical CTO: UT: Richard M. Stallman had criticized Miguel de Icaza for his participation to Open Source Lab which has been founded by Microsoft. What do you think about that? And in the context of this subject how do you evaluate Mono Project. MZ: Miguel and I have met, but [...]
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