Pin ItI've had the opportunity to spend the last three days at the hospital with my 5 month old. (He is going to be ok – He has Respiratory Syncytial Virus and we just have to make sure he's getting enough oxygen.) Everyone kept saying, aren't you bored? Do you want company? Do you feel [...]
Read More »Pin ItI'll be speaking at the Women in Open Source Mini-Conference at SCALE next month. The title of my talk is "You're a Girl!?!" … and Other Reactions Women Encounter in Open Source Software: Why are less than 2% of open source software developers women … and why do we care? We care because women [...]
Read More »Pin ItMatt Asay announced to the world that Delta is using Red Hat Linux. It's not something Delta told him – he observed the Red Hat logo on the screen on his airplane. I'm of mixed opinion on the wisdom of this. I understand that the more companies use open source software and the more [...]
Read More »Pin ItOpenLogic frequently gets lumped into a category that has come to be known as "Open Source Stack Providers" by certain analysts and the press. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but it is a little misleading. Sure, we let users point and click to install any one of a dozen or so pre-determined stacks, [...]
Read More »Pin ItI sometimes get asked by aspiring manages and leaders how to deal with firing someone. It is scary to them to think of causing that much pain and that much disruption in someone’s life, as it should be. Fortunately in the technical world, it doesn’t need to happen very often. In my 25 year [...]
Read More »Pin ItKaj Arnö, MySQL's VP of Community, posted recently that MySQL is changing their licensing scheme from "GPLv2 or later" to "GPLv2". The blogosphere has taken that to mean that MySQL doesn't support GPLv3. Maybe they do support GPLv3, maybe they don't. But they are making a very smart business move. What business can afford [...]
Read More »Pin ItI often get asked "What open source software should I use?" and depending on who's asking it can mean one of two things. The first way it gets asked really means this open source stuff sounds interesting, how do I try it out? In that case, you have to look at who is asking. [...]
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