Archive for category Propriatery Technology
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 [...]
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 [...]
Google to Open Source VP8?
Posted by Jason in Patent System, Propriatery Technology on April 13, 2010
NewTeeVee has up a posting announcing they have “learned from multiple sources” that Google will indeed be Open Source-ing the VP8 video codec. Furthermore, the announcement asserts that Mozilla Firefox will support VP8 for HTML5 video (along with Google Chrome, naturally). I mentioned in passing before the FSF request to Google to take this action, and if this news turns out [...]
Celebrating Apple’s Rules?
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Propriatery Technology on April 12, 2010
Every once in a while I get rational correspondence taking me to task on something I’ve said. I sincerely appreciate hearing criticism, because I loathe the “echo chamber” effect and welcome the challenge of strengthening my arguments. So I was quite happy to receive an email that contained the following: [W]hen I read your new note, it almost [...]
Just Another Zealot
Posted by Jason in Patent System, Propriatery Technology on April 5, 2010
From the Prospect Magazine article “Mash the State“: Much government work is done by civil servants emailing Word documents back and forth. Yet Berners-Lee refuses, on principle, to use Word, which is a proprietary rather than an open source format. On one occasion, one official recalled, Berners-Lee received an urgent document in Word from one [...]
Citrix: Open Source Does Not Mean Interoperable or Compatible
Posted by Jason in Propriatery Technology on March 30, 2010
An interesting exercise in spin submitted for your amusement. This is ultimately another “let’s point out a software problem that applies to both Open and Closed Source and pretend like it only applies to Open Source” bit of misdirection. I guess Citrix doesn’t know that All Source is “Open Source” to Someone.
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