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The streaker, part deux

For those of you who missed it, the above video clip saves for all eternity the "streak" that took place in last weekends Olympic qualifying match between the USA and Honduras.Someone managed to track down her MySpace page and interviewed her. And of c...

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USA vs. Canada Tonight on Fox Soccer Channel

For those of you who have had your fill of March Madness for the day, you will want to check out the Olympic qualifying semifinals tonight between the United States and Canada.If the US wins, they're guaranteed a place in Beijing. If you're interested,...

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I love ankle bracelets

(photo courtesy of Soccer by Ives)It's official - soccer matches are where streakers come to party. Ok, so she's not a *real* streaker, but close enough for our Puritan value :)

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Scientology and Apple?

I take back every bad thing I ever said about Dan Lyons. As reported in Michael Cote's tweet from Lyons' EclipseCon keynote:"If the church of scientology chose to go into the electronics industry, you know, they'd be Apple."Frankly, I didn't know he ha...

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Getting Ready for OSBC - March 25 - 26

I was quite startled to learn yesterday that next week is OSBC. Apparently, I'm the only person crazy enough to go up against Mark Shuttleworth, John Roberts and Marten Mickos. I am moderating a panel titled The Community Imperative: Building and Lever...

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Good Moves by the OSI

I was heartened to read this writeup on CAOS and the canonical blog post by Simon Phipps. I have thought for some time that the way the OSI (and by extension, the OSD) is set up does not meet the needs of the current software landscape. If you look at ...

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Dear Dan Lyons: Open Source was Never 'Counter Culture'

Day 10,274 of misunderstood musings on Open Source. Dan Lyons talks about Open Source being in "an identity crisis" likening it to some punk band from the 70's that's now playing stadiums and losing touch with its original ethos. This is wrong on many,...

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The GPL as IP Protection Tool

Via 451 CAOS Theory, just learned that the Software Freedom Law Center settled its GPL infringement suit with Verizon. I’ll leave the details of the case as an exercise for the reader, but it basically involves a company not adhering to the terms of ...

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Dirk Riehle: Total Growth of Open Source

Via Dana Blankenhorn's blog, I came across an excellent article, "The Total Growth of Open Source" from Amit Deshpande and Dirk Riehle from SAP Research. In it, they look at over 5,000 active and popular Open Source projects and concluded"...that the t...

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Republicans Voting for Clinton?

So I wonder if this is finally going to get some mainstream press: story on Republicans "spiking" the Democratic primaries in the hopes of pushing Clinton over the top.

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Yahoo's Zawodny: We're Open, Too!

I've met Jeremy Zawodny, although I don't know him. From what I have gathered, he and a bunch of people at Yahoo are doing some great work on the Open Source side of the house. In a blog post, Jeremy talks about how Yahoo! has "been on the openness roa...

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Adios, Mexico! El Tri Crashes Out of Olympic Qualifying

Poor Mexico - they sustain yet another soccer disappointment after crashing out of the olympic qualifiers in a wild game against Haiti (they actually won this match 5-1, but didn't make it out of their group due to goal differential).Mexican arrogance ...

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Navy to focus only on open systems

Federal Computer Week has a story covering the US Navy’s position on open source software and open standards. There are a few choice quotes from Vice Adm. Mark Edwards which show the navy understands benefit of unhindered access to information. “The days of proprietary technology must come to an end

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Lost in the OOXML Fog

There’s been a lot of reporting about the ISO fiasco with OOXML. You can read writeups from people much more tuned in to the process than me. You can start here, here and here (the last is a highly recommended roundup from Andy Updegrove). But somewhere in this process, much of the coverage of this

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Toward a $0 Cost Future?

By now, you've no doubt heard of Chris Anderson, Wired's Editor, and his recent article, Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business. If you haven't, you should read it - it's an interesting compendium of how technology is changing the value of things. H...

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The Google Open Source Program Office - A Model to Emulate?

At a recent SDForum event [http://www.sdforum.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Calendar.eventDetail&eventID=13069], I was doing my usual schtick about communities, when I happened to mention one of my recent thoughts: that Google's Open Source Program Office [http://code.google.com/opensource/] kicks major

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Groklaw: ISO Statement on the BRM: Public Stay Out - Updated

The ISO folk have put out a press release [http://www.iso.org/iso/pressrelease.htm?refid=Ref1117] about how wonderful the BRM worked out and what happens next. However, it tells us little people to stay out. Here's the operative language: > The BRM was not intended to be a public event but followed

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Thoughts on Open Source Users and Freedom

I posted this over at BytesFree.org [http://www.bytesfree.org/]. The subject matter is about Linux, specifically, but really it could apply to any Open Source software user. Re-posting below: Over at the TuxToday blog [http://tuxtoday.wordpress.com/], there’s a post about Linux users not caring ab

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Open Source Politics BoF at SCALE

For those of you with a dislike of all things political, I strongly suggest you avert your eyes from this post. If you've already booked your ticket to SCALE [http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/], I hope you'll drop by the Open Source Politics birds-of-a-feather on Friday at 8pm in the appropriately nam

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Of False Dichotomies and 'Proprietary Open Source'

On the Open Sources blog [http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/], Savio Rodrigues goes to great lengths to basically say "It's proprietary Open Source! Not that there's anything wrong with that... [http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2008/01/proprietary_ope.html]" Savio's point is

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Parallel Feedback Loops: Integrating Your Community

I finally wrote something for the Hyperic blog [http://www.hyperic.com/blog/hyperic/]: > The term innovation opportunity has been discussed by Matthew Aslett, who > described it as "the potential to lower development costs for business users, > while at the same time raising their potential to fo

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Stacey Schneider and Open Source as a 'Perfect Market'

As I await the impending cure for writers block (today? tomorrow? next week???) I thought I would shout out to my manager, Stacey, who wrote a great post entitled "Nobel Prize Implies Open Source is A Perfect Market" - an analysis of this paper [http://www.sss.ias.edu/publications/papers/econpaper25

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The Best Kept Secret in Open Source?

Here's a little test for you - quick, name the hardware vendor about which the following was said: > [their] commitment to providing high-quality drivers that meet the needs of > the mobile Linux community is second to none. > - Matthew Garrett, Ubuntu Mobile Linux Engineer > > I tend to suggest

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Would Dostoevsky Use the GPL?

To GPL or not to GPL: What Would Dostoevsky Do? "Thou wouldst go into the world, and art going with empty hands, with some promise of freedom which men in their simplicity and their natural unruliness cannot even understand, which they fear and dread- for nothing has ever been more insupportable fo

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The Most Irritating Question in the World

While I'm waiting on my brain to cough up the rest of the "Open Source Macro vs. Micro" series, I thought I'd post about the Most. Irritating. Question. Ever: > "OMG! Like, how are Open Source developers gonna get paid???" ...usually asked in some worrisome tone, as if Open Source developers a