The Register (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
Two-years and counting In 2004 Eric Raymond wrote an open letter to Sun Microsystems' then chief executive officer Scott McNealy demanding Sun open up their core Java intellectual property and allow anyone do whatever they damn well please with it.…
Critical Section (Free subscription) | 11/23/2008
Sunday morning, and it's all happening... (including an invasion of 11-year-olds here, as my daughter Megan hosts a surprise Birthday party for a friend; I plan to escape on my bike :) Eric Raymond celebrates Victory in Iraq day . (Really, it was yesterday) " The good guys - Western Civilization, the Coalition of the Willing, the United States, and the people of Iraq - won this war....
Boycott Novell (Free subscription) | 11/22/2008
at 8:21 pm by Roy Schestowitz“I’m not a troll, damn it! I’m an innovator.”“On the same day that CA blasted SCO, Open Source evangelist Eric Raymond revealed a leaked email from SCO’s strategic consultant Mike Anderer to their management. The email details how, surprise surprise, Microsoft has arranged virtually all of SCO’s financing, hiding behind intermediaries like Baystar Capital.”–ORTH...
Boycott Novell (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
at 10:26 am by Roy Schestowitz“On the same day that CA blasted SCO, Open Source evangelist Eric Raymond revealed a leaked email from SCO’s strategic consultant Mike Anderer to their management. The email details how, surprise surprise, Microsoft has arranged virtually all of SCO’s financing, hiding behind intermediaries like Baystar Capital.”–ell, SCO’s candidate Sugar Daddy, backed by...
open... (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Sadly, it's become something of an event when Eric Raymond offers one of his stimulating essays on technology. I know he's supposed to be working on some top-secret, er, something , but couldn't we have a few more words like these ? There's an argument commonly heard these days that open-source software is all very well for infrastructure or commodity software where the requirements are...
Blogroll (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
From P2P Foundation What I’d like to see happen is genuine open-source innovation. But I’m afraid this cannot happen, because real innovation requires a lot of money, and corporations remain the best way to fund such innovation, in general with high hopes to make even more money in return. The above quote by Christophe de Dinechin , is challenged by Eric Raymond . Excerpts: “ There’s...
P2P Foundation (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
What I’d like to see happen is genuine open-source innovation. But I’m afraid this cannot happen, because real innovation requires a lot of money, and corporations remain the best way to fund such innovation, in general with high hopes to make even more money in return. The above quote by Christophe de Dinechin , is challenged by Eric Raymond . Excerpts: “ There’s an argument commonly...
Masson's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
A buddy of mine mentioned some commentary by Alex Castellanos on CNN that I had missed. Castellanos mentioned Obama telling the public that he needs their help. He made a leap to an important essay of the open source software movement entitled the Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric Raymond. The gist of the essay [...]
The Hive (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
I’m very pleased to announce that this Friday, November 7th, Schematic: New Media Art from Canada will be opening at [ s p a c e ] media arts in London, UK. I co-curated this exhibition and wrote the curatorial essay. This show is the second part of a two part exhibition. The first part, Schematic: Eric Raymond was a solo exhibition of Montreal-based artist Eric Raymond...
OS Galaxy (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
I've been re-reading Eric Raymond's How To Become A Hacker , and one of the links in there points to Rick Moen's Recipe for a Successful Linux User Group . Both documents are excellent. So, I figured I'd scratch out a little "Recipe for a Successful OpenSolaris User Group" based on what these guys have said, my own experiences being in some user groups, and also some observations about...
