Category: Controversial

Exit whurley Stage Left

May 21, 2009 38

If you are coming here from the preDevCamp website, then you already know what this post is about. Perhaps you’ve already read one of the posts written by my preDevCamp co-founders Dan Rumney and Giovanni Gallucci. Things haven’t exactly worked out between preDevCamp and Palm, Inc. I’ll spare you the nitty-gritty. In the end, [..

City’s Web Site Redesign Might Go Open-Source

May 18, 2009 1

Today Lori Hawkins published a story on OpenAustin in the Tech Monday section of the Austin American Statesman. Here’s an excerpt: “Now Hurley, whose day job is chief architect of open-source strategy at BMC Software, has taken up the cause, with the goal of crowdsourcing the development of the site using Austin talent. He has created

The Death Of A Software License

June 6, 2007 0

This week I found myself entangled in yet another GPL argument. Opinions on the GPL’s infamous viral effect polluted the air as advocates and opponents battled over topics they had no business discussing. My advice: don’t argue about a legal license unless you’re a lawyer. Scratch that. Don’t argue about the GPL, period. Mos

Seven Reasons Microsoft Loves Open Source

April 25, 2007 0

Next week I’m leading the “Open Source, the Web, Interoperability, and Microsoft” panel at Mix07 in Vegas, my first Microsoft conference. Naturally, I’ve been pondering the topic so I don’t end up on stage with my pants around my ankles. The more I think about it, the more I think Microsoft loves open source—and not [...]

Self Defending Networks, Aggressive Network Self-Defense, and Vigilantes on the net

June 15, 2005 0

Today is the one-year anniversary of my interview with NewScientist magazine on what, at the time, was the highly controversial subject of “countermeasures” technologies. The interview was one of many I did with Symbiot in response to the March 2004 release of the company’s iSIMS (intelligent Security Infrastructure Management Sof

CBS News: Vigilante Justice In Cyberspace, The Network Strikes Back

June 21, 2004 0

“Make no mistake,” reads a document on Symbiot’s Web site, “we are in the midst of an information warfare conflict which we have not been fighting.” Read the article