 |
Archive for the ‘Spotlight’ Category
Popular print media outlets are dying. It doesn’t matter if you’re a small town rag or the world’s best-known brand, progress doesn’t discriminate. How bad is it? The New York Times (which owns the Boston Globe and many regional papers) owes $400 million more than it has on hand. Both the Detroit News and the [...]
The Free Software Foundation has just announced that it has filed suit against Cisco Systems in the United States District Court (Southern District of New York) for violations of the GPL. Veteran open source lawyer Hank Jones provided me with a copy of the complaint earlier, but it is now available on the FSF web [...]
You know, BusinessWeek asked me about Apple potentially open sourcing the iPhone over a year ago. Since then: nothing out of Apple, despite mounting pressure from projects like Android that are vying for Apple’s throne. With Christmas only days away, I’ve only got one thing I want to ask Santa Jobs for, and it ain’t [...]
Hey, is your economy down? All right, bad joke, but it is the country’s current collective bellyache. 760,000 jobs lost already this year according to the Bureau of Labor. Businesses are frantically jettisoning people-weight just to stay afloat. Times are tougher than Chuck Liddell. I think I saw my old CEO in line at the soup [...]
This weekend BarCampAustin3 (held during SxSW) featured a ton of amazing things including some fantastic sessions, a mini iPhoneDevCamp, and a singing Unicorn at Karaoke Apocalypse. All went well save one small incident involving a 340lb BattleBot malfunctioning and then taking off as fast as it could for the closest Microsoft employees (including
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
/seek
/social
/topics
/feedback
- http://projects.openaustin.org/ -> http://projects.openaustin.org/restartconf...
- Really good idea.....
- After all this blow up and locking of horns. Palm has stepped up and really came...
- its sucks but its lovely, is bad but its misunderstood, its here but its not.......
- The sad part is that I bet the decision came from a very few closed-minded old s...
- @anne "you guys have some sympathizers within Palm..." That just sounds WAY too...
- Hi Q, Just re-read my own blog to make sure. Funny thing, I'm like 98% sure ...
- It's not that developers are not important -- it's that they've proven themselve...
- Ever considered just not violating an NDA?...
- Just saw this on the Palm Developer Network Blog this morning... actually, I had...
- you guys have some sympathizers within Palm (esp. the developers). Be a little ...
- @whurley, Maybe I am the only one but I feel a little lost. You seem to thin...
- Taharka, I should have been more clear: I don't really care about what happe...
- I know how much work you, Dan and Giovanni put in to making preDevCamp happen, i...
- Racquel, try to understand Palm's situation. They are trying the manage an overl...
