Saturday, August 20, 2005
I love it! GreaseMonkey as role model. But, it’s an excellent analogy. Asterisk is a cool platform for clientside hacking. I gather there was a time long long ago when all the innovation in telephony ask taking place around PBX being sold to corporations. I gather that bloom of innovation was rolled up and moved [...]
Saturday, August 20, 2005
I see that Sun has set up an Open Source Office in a further attempt to bring some coherence to their strategy and tactics for relating to the open source phenomenon. This kind of activity can be viewed from different frames. I, for example, haven’t the qualifications to view it thru the Java frame. But [...]
Thursday, August 11, 2005
Paul Kedrosky writes about the source of superior investment returns; which states that the key is to find the actionable investments where you disagree with the consensus. Certainty, say that gas prices will move in a direction different from the consensus estimate, is one thing but then what action do you take? In my noodle [...]
Wednesday, August 3, 2005
Cool, the Mozilla Foundation has budded off a commercial taxible subsidiary. I agree with Karim. This is a very exciting development. While we have seen numerous attempts by commercial firms to capture some of that Open Source magic. Most of these have come from people who’s motives are principally commercial. Now there is nothing wrong [...]
Bummer. Returning yet again to the topic of how the producer of an information good can shift the distribution load out onto a swarm of consumers. The producer can package his content in ways that make it easier and more likely that the swarm can collaborate. For example he can distributed redundent copies of the [...]
This is an amusing this attempt to label strategic approaches to Open source available to the software vendor. The truly committed The mixed-codebase The pragmatics The anti-strategist The headless chickens The in-denial The anti-OSS Open Source has upset the apple cart of consensus about how to run a software company. Just consider a handful of [...]
Something to try when optimistic concurrency doesn’t seem to be working. “I was really glad to hear we were all going to have a single person to blame when X issues aren’t getting resolved…until I heard it was me.” Lifted from an ASF mailing list.
The phrase “reciprocal licensing” got into my head a few months ago. If you go poke around you find that the term is mostly used to describe ways that one organization agrees to honor the licenses granted to professionals by some other organization. Licenses are, of course, set of rights and responsibilities. For example is [...]
My car’s check engine light came on. Being both modern and a cheapskate I found the online community where Passat owners hang out. My old car there had a secret pattern of key turns and button pushes that would cause the car reveal engine’s fault. I was hoping for something similar. But car makers love [...]
Open sure is virulent. … The folks that make one of the chipsets widely used in IP phones have decided to open up access to their software stack under a BSD style license. We really have no idea how open all these gadgets are going to be, do we? I wonder how long before we [...]
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