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So far the views from Dave, whurley, Matt and others have been negative to handle with caution. After I heard that Microsoft was releasing the .NET 3.5 source under the Microsoft Research License (i.e. look but don't touch), I tried to find what
Wouldn't it be cool if there was a way to track comments across blogs and discussion sites such as slashdot or TSS? Maybe this capability exists, and if so, PLEASE enlighten me. If not, I am happy to take credit for the idea that someone will im
Microsoft is releasing its .Net Framework libraries under the Microsoft Reference License, which allows viewing of source code but not modification or redistribution. Despite my chronic proclamations of conspiracy theories, this whole thing seems lik
When I joined MySQL four years ago, there was quite a lot of debate about product management. We didn't actually have any product managers and the view in Engineering was "we don't need 'em." The rationale was that we were so
The SF Chronicle is in search of the perfect pizza and interviewed one of buddies, Anthony Mangieri, owner of Una Pizza Napoletana in NYC, whose pizza would be my choice for last meal prior to Electric Chair (though I am hoping that's not my wa
Many of you may have heard that Matthew Aslett is over at The 451 Group now. Matthew has been tracking VC funding to OSS vendors for quite some time now. Matthew reports that VC funding to OSS vendors in 3Q07 decreased 42% to $78M from $133M in 3Q06.
There are 50 people in a room. Each is asked to pick a number from 0 to 99. The winning number will be calculated by taking two-thirds of the average of the numbers picked by the 50 people. What number would you pick in order to win? Scroll down. Scr
Gary Little from Morgenthaler has an insightful post titled From Internet 'Traffic' to Open-Source 'Community' on the subtleties between traditional, OSS, and consumer marketing. Both consumer Internet and open-source companies de
Since its release this June, GPLv3 certainly seems to have taken on the role of baby Damien within the open source licensing world. Sure, it's cute and cuddly at first glance, but behind its deep blue eyes lurk pure and unhinged evil ... at leas
I decided today that I would buy the Roomba so as to not have to look at the dog hair all over our floor. I picked one up at the local Bed, Bath and Beyond was totally thrilled and then got home opened the sucker up and all of the documentation is in