Pin ItThere's a really interesting paper posted on the MIT website, Understanding knowledge sharing activities in free/opensource software projects: An empirical study, that did an in depth analysis of the Debian mailing lists. They came up with all sorts of interesting statistics like: 2% of the knowledge providers were responsible for about 50% of the [...]
Read More »Pin ItOne of the hard parts of international travel is that it costs $1/minute to use most cell phones. That makes staying in touch with those at home pretty expensive. I use Skype to call home but for that I have to be on a computer, in a quiet place, and I have to initiate [...]
Read More »Pin ItI'm not a big fan of Tshirts as "spread the word" marketing. (I think Tshirts are great marketing tools for other reasons though.) But Fabrizio Capobianco's "235 more reasons to love open source" tshirt definitely works to spread the word. I managed to snag an XXL one at OSBC and everytime my boyfriend wears [...]
Read More »Pin ItI really like Firefox. It's been a real solid browser with lots of development support for the things we do at OpenLogic. Firebug in particular has been awesome and Selenium is nice too. Since upgrading to Firefox 2.x, my linux machine has been dog slow. For a long time I couldn't figure out what [...]
Read More »Pin ItMatt Asay wrote a post called "Who decides what distribution is?" and while he did a great job of explaining copyright, I don't think he got the answer right about distribution. He summarizes his post with: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and interpretation is in the hands of the copyright holder. [...]
Read More »Pin ItDana Blankenhorn argues that since Linus Torvald doesn't want to be the CEO of Linux, Jim Zemlin (head of the Linux Foundation) should step up to the task. I'd argue that we don't need a CEO of Linux. As a matter of fact, Linux has reached the popularity and fame it has because it [...]
Read More »Pin ItIDC says the top two reasons companies don't use more open source is: "The potential for copyright and patent infringement" "availability of support" We've been hearing that for a while now and that's why we indemnify all 300 plus open source software products in our library (for both copyrights and patents) and we support [...]
Read More »Pin ItSo I blogged that SCO lost – I didn't get a chance to explain what that meant. (We were expecting over 70 people to the house that afternoon and my significant other might have shot me if I'd sat down to blog!) So what does it mean that SCO lost? I'm not an attorney [...]
Read More »Pin ItSCO has officially lost. Groklaw sums it up well, Court Rules: Novell owns the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights Novell has right to waive.
Read More »Pin Ithttp://del.icio.us/ is touted as the premiere example of 'folksonomy' – users building a taxonomy. In other words, users creating categories, a classification system for content. In the case of this site, a folder, but you get to put the same bookmark in three or a dozen 'folders' if you'd like. This is tagging at [...]
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