Accidental Awesomeness
Props to Coté for a coining a great term. His post on TechEd ‘07 CommunityDay is interesting on a couple of levels, this caught my attention:
For me, the most interesting aspect of the sessions was the hunger the audience generally had to get the code. For example, Thomas Jung demo’d a [...]
Microsoft Cuts Vista Price in Half
But only in China.
The price cut is the company’s latest effort to tackle the rampant software piracy in China, according to The Wall Street Journal. The theory is that if legitimate software costs less, people will be less likely to turn to pirated versions.
Or it could be an effort to thwart [...]
An Alternate Look at Platform Selection
It’s not often that you find such a remarkably well constructed discussion about making a platform selection that doesn’t actually have much to do with the technical aspects of the topic.
"While I’d love to make a recommendation for one of these sexier frameworks, ultimately I’m going to recommend PHP and WordPressMU [...]
BT Acquires TiddlyWiki, Name Change Imminent
Jeremy Rustin sold his company to British Telecom, which at first glance may seem an improbable fit but when you consider the BT Workspace initiative it makes a lot of sense. Also, the fact that the team he will no doubt be a part of is based here in Palo Alto, well it’s actually a [...]
OpenID at Work
ongoing · OpenID at Work: OpenID (see my previous write-up) is a cheap-and-cheerful easy-to-implement way to bind an identity to a URI. It allows a Web site talking to a browser to look at the URI and reliably ask its server to confirm (or not) that the person behind the browser has OpenID rights to the [...]
Linux Distro Timeline
Why Can the Open Source Car Be Open AND Cool Too?
“The goal was to produce a simple, sturdy, easily-maintained, multi-functional, modular vehicle that was truly international.”
Apparently the other goal of the OScar project was also to create a car that makes you feel like a complete frickin dork.
Guess it was too much work to make it look like this?
The Great Identity Wars of 2007
When I was with SAP Ventures we invested in Ping Identity with the very simple investment thesis that 1) identity technologies were on a path to identity federation simply to reduce the complexity that users have to deal with across systems, and 2) the line between consumer and enterprise technology was blurring as business users [...]
MySQL shuns GPL version 3
I pointed to this issue of religious purification in an earlier post. It’s called “open” source and not “free software” for a reason, open source is supposed to be about the fair sharing of code as opposed to stripping away anyone’s rights to assert ownership over something.
MySQL shuns GPL version 3 - vnunet.com:
MySQL’s reasons [...]
Maybe It Should Be Called “The Puritanical Open Source Society”
I’m kind of tired of these debates about whether something is open source enough or adheres to Stallman’esque values of what free software is supposed to adhere to. There is a further sense of irony that in order for something to be “open” it has to be approved by someone. Having said that, the OSI [...]
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