The Product of My Research
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Novell on March 24, 2010
Just something I ran across trying to research the Disappearing Article Mystery: http://twitter.com/tuhl/status/10690157612 Short meeting with Jeremy Allison was cool – #osbc #samba #google http://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/10691469526 @tuhl Shame that he has turned into a fear monger, hating, conspiracy theorist Stay classy, San Diego.
The Disappearing Article Mystery
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Microsoft, Novell, Patent System on March 24, 2010
This is strange. The Treasure I ran across some interesting quotes allegedly from Miguel de Icaza: Microsoft has shot the .NET ecosystem in the foot because of the constant threat of patent infringement that they have cast on the ecosystem [...] Unlike the Java world that is blossoming with dozens of vibrant Java Virtual Machine [...]
FSF Free Software Awards 2009
Posted by Jason in Free Software on March 24, 2010
The FSF announced the 2009 Free Software Award winners: Award for Advancement of Free Software: John Gilmore (Cygnus Solutions) Award for Project of Social Benefit: Internet Archive
TuxRadar: Clear as Mud
Posted by Jason in Free Software on March 23, 2010
This is the first time I have ran across this site, but what in the seventeen frozen hells of Valhalla is TuxRadar trying to ask: Open Ballot: would you hire the FSF for the role of Linux PR department? The Free Software Foundation has always done a great job defending the various free software licences, [...]
Matt Asay on Partisanship
Wow – lots of interesting stuff to blog about today! Mr. Asay, Canonical COO, blogs up “Life’s too short for partisanship“. Let’s break it on down If Microsoft warms up to open source, why not share some plaudits? And even when it gets things wrong, surely it’s better to politely critique rather than spew invectives? [...]
Andrew Tridgell on Patent Defense
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Microsoft, Novell, Patent System on March 23, 2010
End Software Patents has up a transcript and link to video of Andrew Tridgell’s talk on patent defense. Interestingly, Mr. Tridgell asserts that you should be reading patents – contrary to a lot of folk wisdom that doing so is dangerous because of “triple damages”: Andrew Tridgell: Triple damages. Right. Okay. In the free software community, [...]
SHOCKING: de Icaza likes oData
Microsoft MVP Miguel de Icaza is most definitely-not-being a Microsoft apologist yet again. This time around the object of his affection is oData, Microsoft’s “we can make stuff too” not-invented-here totally uneeded alternative to Google’s gData. There’s a few interesting tidbits in this totally unshocking development: I know what I like, and I’m sticking to it Mr. de [...]
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