It shall henceforth be known as the pleaseExtendOurFunding-ion.
OK, I jest. On a more serious (but related) note, back in 2000, when the LEP at CERN was shutting down, there were possible "hints" of the Higgs' Boson and pleas to extend the running time (which were ultimately denied so that the LHC would not be delayed).
Given that Google is on the sharp end of Oracle monetizing Java, anyone else think they might start to push Google Go really hard? It's immature at the moment but it looks really nice and I think as it matures it could really catch on.
Hopefully public pressure (e.g. the ideas on the "Your Freedom"
Government run website for suggesting laws to scrap:
here and
here)
will cause the Digital Economy Act to be scrapped.
Aside from public pressure, there is also a
possible review in the Lords
so there are a few chinks of light in the sky.
I don't understand why Apple or Google (Or Nokia) would want Palm. At
least if the main asset was WebOS - none of these companies would ditch
the mobile OS they are backing in favour of it.
So my wild arsed guess is that Palm had enough patents that the
various companies thought would be useful in the court battles that are just
beginning. But at the price a company like Palm would fetch - the patents must
be valuable!
It would fit with HP paying more - they get the patents and WebOS and they
weren't previously backing a mobile OS.
My Rogers iPhone works just fine for tethering. All I have to do is turn Internet Tethering on in the preferences, then plug it into the sync cable. Leopard pops up a dialog box which says something like "Hey! New Ethernet Interface found; would you like to use it?" -- click Ok, disable any other active network interface (or tweak your routing table) and bam: you're surfing on 3G.
Hmm... you made that sound fairly complicated. A cable? This is the 21st century! With my phone (an N900 but it works with many other phones including Symbian ones), I enable the internet sharing via a little app on my phone (Joikuspot) and then my laptop sees a new wireless access point.
Well Symbian has Nokia behind it, and they aren't a small company.
But I'm not persuaded it's all about the companies backing it. The soon to be released, MeeGo phones have Nokia backing too (as well as Intel) but I'm much more excited about that than Symbian. Having a fairly standard Linux stack on my phone is something I love about my N900 and I'm looking forward to its successor.
As a developer who works on (closed-source)
enterprise software which runs on Linux (amongst other platforms) I'm
nervous about Novell being sold. Though I develop on Fedora and primarily
use RHEL for informal testing (we do formal testing on all the platforms we
support) I'm glad that a solid, serious alternative to RHEL exists.
Obviously a sale of Novell doesn't necessarily imply any change for their
Linux business (esp. as I understand it's one of their more profitable
divisions) but it is likely (in the short term) to introduce some uncertainty.
The Linux market seems very healthy at the moment and I hope it continues
to be at least a duopoly. Red Hat are a very cool company but I wouldn't
like to see any company have a (virtual) monopoly in Enterprise Linux.
I think that you have to give Alex Brown a lot of credit for this article. He effectively "sided" with Microsoft in the massive controversy that was the OOXML standardisation. In that position many people would convince themselves they had done the right thing and turn a blind eye to Microsoft's failings.
That he's prepared to publicly do what he has make me have a little more respect for him and people like him (Rick Jelliffe) for the part they played in the mess that was the initial standardisation.
Even though I own my own smartphone,
where I work (a very large IT company) there is an increasingly lengthy list
of requirements and checks for any device connected to the corporate network.
I value my choice and don't want my employer to get me a phone but if I use
it for work it is an increasing amount of hassle
Personally the new web technology that I'm most keen to get my hands on
is the pushState/replaceState
stuff that is going to be in the next release of Firefox after 3.6. It makes
it much easier to deal with forward/back in AJAX web apps
More on topic, it is good to see Microsoft looking to implement new
web technologies again.... if they implement much of HTML5 and they
seem to be doing that now and this new Indexed DB stuff it looks like the
Golden Age of the web will continue for some time.
And Opera 10.50 has
just been released too,
the first version of Opera with <Video> tag support.
With Chrome, Safari and Firefox all evolving quickly, the future of the web is looking good. I just wish they
would all support an open, royalty-free codec.
Android (and Palm's new WebOS) phones seem fairly cool but I'd rather use a phone that had more of the normal Linux userland. The FreeRunner still has lots of very rough edges but the new Nokia N900 with Maemo 5 looks really mouth-watering
As a Brit, this appointment won't affect me directly. But indirectly
US Government policy has an important global effect. I'll be watching closely
to see whether ODF becomes widely used as a document format by the US Federal
Government.
I disagree with the whole underlying point of the article. I think Mozilla
should be able to stop someone taking their source, adding a whole bunch of
unstable "improvements" as patches and calling it Firefox. It would damage a
brand that is one of the best brands that FOSS currently has. It doesn't stop
people getting the browser, if they don't Mozilla's restrictions they could
call it, say, EarthHorse.
The article throws around terms like "restricted distribution" and
"severely limiting all activity" but gives examples like CentOS where CentOS
and Red Hat exist happily together but with Red Hat still able to build up
a brand with some protections.
The article ends "just like patents and traditional copyright, it's totally
incompatible with the spirit and ethos of open source software.". People here
may not like the length that copyright lasts for but the GPL relies on the
fundamental idea of copyright. Similarly there may be some issues with
trademarks but if so they need patching not a whole sale revolution as
this article seems to suggest.
This Guardian article argues that the
story is complete hot air, the two sources (Tech Crunch and ValleyWag) are both unconvinced themselves and the Twitter execs seem to be in the wrong
part of the US to be locked into negotiations with Apple.
Leaving aside whether it is true or not, it seems a very strange fit. Apple doesn't seem to gain very much in its core business from the
acquisition
I can't wait! At this rate, 2024 will be the year of Linux on the Desktop!
If it increases at 1 percentage point per year (which is what is has increased in the whole of its life so far), we'll reach 100% a lot later than 2024
Given the pandemic of meaning obscuring, "politically correct" names, I'm
surprised that swine flu hasn't been renamed to "porcine repressing
influenza" or some such.
I think I'll stick to using my repositories for my OpenMoko and
opkg.org. The software for the Freerunner
has improved a lot recently (admittedly from a very low base).
When OM cancelled ("postponed") the GTA03 and laid off a number of
clever, hard-working hackers I figured that it was the end of the company
but despite my pessimism, the latest revision of the phone comes with the
hardware fixes and the newest release of the operating system (OM2009)
is shaping up to be pretty good.
It makes no sense to spin off OpenOffice before knowing what Oracle does to it. What I think most of us really care about is some reinvigoration in the OpenOffice project, which this change may help bring about.
It may reinvigorate OO, who knows, but I did like Solveig Haugland's open letter to Larry Elison explaining what he'd like to see happen. (Hat tip to http://www.groklaw.net)
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The Jolla keyboard mentioned by the parent is only being made in a batch of 100 to start with so may not be an option for everyone...
It shall henceforth be known as the pleaseExtendOurFunding-ion.
OK, I jest. On a more serious (but related) note, back in 2000, when the LEP at CERN was shutting down, there were possible "hints" of the Higgs' Boson and pleas to extend the running time (which were ultimately denied so that the LHC would not be delayed).
Given that Google is on the sharp end of Oracle monetizing Java, anyone else think they might start to push Google Go really hard? It's immature at the moment but it looks really nice and I think as it matures it could really catch on.
Hopefully public pressure (e.g. the ideas on the "Your Freedom" Government run website for suggesting laws to scrap: here and here) will cause the Digital Economy Act to be scrapped.
Aside from public pressure, there is also a possible review in the Lords so there are a few chinks of light in the sky.
I don't understand why Apple or Google (Or Nokia) would want Palm. At least if the main asset was WebOS - none of these companies would ditch the mobile OS they are backing in favour of it.
So my wild arsed guess is that Palm had enough patents that the various companies thought would be useful in the court battles that are just beginning. But at the price a company like Palm would fetch - the patents must be valuable!
It would fit with HP paying more - they get the patents and WebOS and they weren't previously backing a mobile OS.
I think this XKCD cartoon about correlation vs. causation is one of my favourite.
Hmm... you made that sound fairly complicated. A cable? This is the 21st century! With my phone (an N900 but it works with many other phones including Symbian ones), I enable the internet sharing via a little app on my phone (Joikuspot) and then my laptop sees a new wireless access point.
Well Symbian has Nokia behind it, and they aren't a small company.
But I'm not persuaded it's all about the companies backing it. The soon to be released, MeeGo phones have Nokia backing too (as well as Intel) but I'm much more excited about that than Symbian. Having a fairly standard Linux stack on my phone is something I love about my N900 and I'm looking forward to its successor.
The Guardian newspaper have already built an interesting tool for exploring the data.
As a developer who works on (closed-source) enterprise software which runs on Linux (amongst other platforms) I'm nervous about Novell being sold. Though I develop on Fedora and primarily use RHEL for informal testing (we do formal testing on all the platforms we support) I'm glad that a solid, serious alternative to RHEL exists.
Obviously a sale of Novell doesn't necessarily imply any change for their Linux business (esp. as I understand it's one of their more profitable divisions) but it is likely (in the short term) to introduce some uncertainty.
The Linux market seems very healthy at the moment and I hope it continues to be at least a duopoly. Red Hat are a very cool company but I wouldn't like to see any company have a (virtual) monopoly in Enterprise Linux.
I think that you have to give Alex Brown a lot of credit for this article. He effectively "sided" with Microsoft in the massive controversy that was the OOXML standardisation. In that position many people would convince themselves they had done the right thing and turn a blind eye to Microsoft's failings.
That he's prepared to publicly do what he has make me have a little more respect for him and people like him (Rick Jelliffe) for the part they played in the mess that was the initial standardisation.
Even though I own my own smartphone, where I work (a very large IT company) there is an increasingly lengthy list of requirements and checks for any device connected to the corporate network.
I value my choice and don't want my employer to get me a phone but if I use it for work it is an increasing amount of hassle
Personally the new web technology that I'm most keen to get my hands on is the pushState/replaceState stuff that is going to be in the next release of Firefox after 3.6. It makes it much easier to deal with forward/back in AJAX web apps
More on topic, it is good to see Microsoft looking to implement new web technologies again.... if they implement much of HTML5 and they seem to be doing that now and this new Indexed DB stuff it looks like the Golden Age of the web will continue for some time.
And Opera 10.50 has just been released too, the first version of Opera with <Video> tag support.
With Chrome, Safari and Firefox all evolving quickly, the future of the web is looking good. I just wish they would all support an open, royalty-free codec.
Recent reports also note that the Nokiasuarus Maemonicus has been evolving in a new strain: Meegoasaurus Rex which prefers open spaces
Android (and Palm's new WebOS) phones seem fairly cool but I'd rather use a phone that had more of the normal Linux userland. The FreeRunner still has lots of very rough edges but the new Nokia N900 with Maemo 5 looks really mouth-watering
.
As a Brit, this appointment won't affect me directly. But indirectly US Government policy has an important global effect. I'll be watching closely to see whether ODF becomes widely used as a document format by the US Federal Government.
The ODF Alliance have welcomed the appointment, as have Tim O'Reilly and a host of other people so I'm hopeful that it will turn out to be a good thing
I disagree with the whole underlying point of the article. I think Mozilla should be able to stop someone taking their source, adding a whole bunch of unstable "improvements" as patches and calling it Firefox. It would damage a brand that is one of the best brands that FOSS currently has. It doesn't stop people getting the browser, if they don't Mozilla's restrictions they could call it, say, EarthHorse.
The article throws around terms like "restricted distribution" and "severely limiting all activity" but gives examples like CentOS where CentOS and Red Hat exist happily together but with Red Hat still able to build up a brand with some protections.
The article ends "just like patents and traditional copyright, it's totally incompatible with the spirit and ethos of open source software.". People here may not like the length that copyright lasts for but the GPL relies on the fundamental idea of copyright. Similarly there may be some issues with trademarks but if so they need patching not a whole sale revolution as this article seems to suggest.
Fedora 11, which is due to be released in about 3 weeks, will have OO3.1
This Guardian article argues that the story is complete hot air, the two sources (Tech Crunch and ValleyWag) are both unconvinced themselves and the Twitter execs seem to be in the wrong part of the US to be locked into negotiations with Apple.
Leaving aside whether it is true or not, it seems a very strange fit. Apple doesn't seem to gain very much in its core business from the acquisition
A pair of rabbits will produce offspring fairly regularly. This does not mean that the number of rabbits grows at a linear rate.
You want us to out breed Windows users? We need to make contraception contravene the GPL!
I can't wait! At this rate, 2024 will be the year of Linux on the Desktop!
If it increases at 1 percentage point per year (which is what is has increased in the whole of its life so far), we'll reach 100% a lot later than 2024
Given the pandemic of meaning obscuring, "politically correct" names, I'm surprised that swine flu hasn't been renamed to "porcine repressing influenza" or some such.
I think I'll stick to using my repositories for my OpenMoko and opkg.org. The software for the Freerunner has improved a lot recently (admittedly from a very low base).
When OM cancelled ("postponed") the GTA03 and laid off a number of clever, hard-working hackers I figured that it was the end of the company but despite my pessimism, the latest revision of the phone comes with the hardware fixes and the newest release of the operating system (OM2009) is shaping up to be pretty good.
It makes no sense to spin off OpenOffice before knowing what Oracle does to it. What I think most of us really care about is some reinvigoration in the OpenOffice project, which this change may help bring about.
It may reinvigorate OO, who knows, but I did like Solveig Haugland's open letter to Larry Elison explaining what he'd like to see happen. (Hat tip to http://www.groklaw.net)