Pin ItI checked out of my hotel early and hurried over to the Palace Hotel to listen to Rob Curley talk about open source and journalism. At first I was disappointed because it was just all about using open source as the infrastructure for the computers they were using. Then it got more interesting … [...]
Read More »Pin ItWhen I first read the Microsoft saber rattling article in Forbes a week ago where Microsoft claimed open source projects including Linux, OpenOffice and others violated 235 of Microsoft's patents, my first thought was: "Is that all?" Out of the millions of lines of code those open source projects represent, the idea that they [...]
Read More »Pin It Today I went to a panel that was a "non-bloggable event." I'm not sure what it means to be a non-bloggable event and I'm not sure someone can tell me that I can't blog about an event I attend but I do understand that they were trying to make it a more interesting [...]
Read More »Pin ItThe Downloads to Dollars panel was moderated by Larry Augustin and the panelists were from XenSource, Vyatta, Eloqua and OpenSpan. (And one of them used a lot of JBoss stories.) The dilemma here is that companies want to offer free software downloads as a lead to a customer but downloaders don't like registration forms. [...]
Read More »Pin ItIf you are at the Open Source Business Conference, stop by to say hi! I think it's funny how each conference has a culture and a personality of its own. Just think about it. JavaOne. Who do you see? Lots and lots of developers – all attending very technical talks and BOF into the [...]
Read More »Pin ItWe've been using a proprietary web conferencing tool for our webinars because none of the open source ones meet all of our needs. The big problem with the proprietary ones is that you have to use their proprietary player to play back the webinar. We've been debating giving up some of the features [...]
Read More »Pin ItOne of the things that has always fascinated me is how people do not understand why developers write code for free. I can't tell you how many people I've explained open source software to – only to have them get stuck on the "yes, but why are these guys writing this software? Don't they [...]
Read More »Pin ItThis was my first JavaOne. At first I was amazed at the spectacle of it all. Logistically there's a lot going on. When I signed in I was sent to about 6 different locations before I had all of my credentials and gear. Despite the bumps it's the place to be if you're in [...]
Read More »Pin ItRich Green, a Sun VP, says that the open source model is unsustainable and that we are stealing from the poor to give to the rich. Maybe he should study the open source model and the motivation behind open source software before he stands up in front of thousands and claims Sun is going [...]
Read More »Pin ItI got an invitation to yet another social networking site, Dopplr. This one is focused around travel. You enter your trips and you can see if any of your friends are going to be there. So, for example, I can tell that Nat Torkington and Tim O'Reilly are going to be in Portland in [...]
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