Today I had an exchange via Twitter with my friend Sean, who reminded me about a point we’ve previously discussed face-to-face, “… #opensource #FAIL meter http://bit.ly/nBcYz too Linux-centric – doesn’t apply to Java, Web or Ajax …” My point back was, “… It applies if you want to deploy on #Linux … don’t #h8 your [...]
I was a bit melancholy last week when OpenSourceWorld was happening in San Francisco. I have barely missed this event since I had my mind cracked open in 2001. But I stood firmly by my boycott of the event. If they were going to act ashamed of and stupid about the open source projects and [...]
Recently I’ve been seeing articles about homeschoolers using free software: Free homeschool software: Probably the best conjunction of words that a homeschooling parent has heard since they found out that their child is going to summer camp. Why shouldn’t it be? Getting more for less is as American as homeschooling itself. I’ve commented on several [...]
This was the central question I reckon I carried away after talking with folks from Nexenta. They have an open source core, Nexenta.org, that uses an OpenSolaris kernel with ZFS and a rebuilt Debian non-GUI userspace. The combination provides network attached storage (NAS) with lots of potential as an open solution. What resonated most with [...]
The open source software companies (ISVs) that I’ve been talking with about Fedora have a common problem. Ironically they, as usual, are resolving this problem individually. Making an RPM that relies upon system packages is not seen as desirable, as it reduces their portability and focuses (in their minds) on one delivery platform — RPM-based [...]
