I have been using Google 411 for quite a while now and I've been wondering if the 10 second ad they play is enough to pay for the service. Well, I found out today why Google really made Google 411 – they want to collect the data for speech recognition software for video search! [...]
Read More »More and more companies are experimenting with paying open source developers. Why? Some pay to recruit hard to find talent. Wikipedia will be paying illustrators because good technical diagrams are hard to come by and people aren’t contributing them like the rest of content. Some pay to encourage more participation in certain projects. Sun just [...]
Read More »We just released OSS Discovery as open source software. OSS Discovery is an open source tool that finds installed open source software. It can be used to inventory open source software across an enterprise or on a single computer. To go with it, we also announced a new initiative, The Open Source Census. The Open [...]
Read More »I really enjoyed reading Greg Kroah-Hartman's keynote talk from OLS 2006. (I'm not sure why I just stumbled across his 2006 keynote now.) I enjoyed what he had to say and I enjoyed the format he put it in. He created a web page with all of his slides as pictures interspersed with text. I [...]
Read More »Sun was recently the perfect example of why many companies don't invest more in open source software. Sun was accused of hardball open source project tactics. Many companies are afraid to start working on open source software projects because they are afraid they might make a mistake – and mistakes in the open source world [...]
Read More »I was thinking the other day about software that I use every day but is unobtrusive….so much so that I forget I'm using it. Besides the normal embedded software in consumer devices, one of the first packages that came to mind was DenyHosts. DenyHosts is a Python script and system which effectively stops brute force [...]
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