The content of Miguel's message aside, I just wanted to remark about how classy his message was. No flaming, no nastiness, just a quiet and reasonable editorial about one way to look at the situation.
Argh, I just ordered a new video card. I wanted a TNT2, but I went with a Matrox card because I mostly need 2d graphics and XFree86 supports the G200 well. If I'd only known this a week ago, I would have bought a TNT2 instead. Oh well, next time!
I'm dying of curiousity - anyone know what Redhat's valuation is? A few publically traded companies have bought pieces of Redhat now; do they have to disclose information?
JWZ has been around a long time as a good code hack. Anyone remember alt.fan.jwz, from about 6 years ago? I remember when MCOM hired JWZ, thinking "oh, maybe that company will go somewhere". He's a talented guy. His comments about the problems with Mozilla are worth reading and taking to heart. A lot of companies are experimenting with open source now; we in the community can help open source by understanding how it works, when it doesn't.
Many congratulations to the Blackdown folks for getting the prerelease of the port out. Great work, guys! We really appreciate what you've done.
To the Linux community - Java is very important for the future of Linux, it's imperative that Java work well on it. Java is already the language for Internet programming, and it's becoming the language for embedded networking thanks to Jini. Linux is uniquely positioned to serve these areas. We have a real opportunity here, especially now that Microsoft is dropping the Java ball.
The one problem left is the licensing model - Java isn't exactly Free. But Sun is pursuing very interesting licensing terms with their Community Source License; it's worth a look. The SCSL isn't Open Source (tm), it's more restricted so that Sun has a commercial angle on their work. But overall, it's interesting. They're pursuing this strategy very aggressively, releasing Solaris and their CPU designs (Sparc and picoJava) under SCSL.
I'm very saddened to read this latest message from Bruce. He's done a lot to help the free/open software movement. But recently, he's done a lot to hurt it as well. At some point the community has to stop debating fine matters of principle and present a united front.
Linux is playing with the big boys now - the announcements of SGI and IBM this week are just the latest in the Linux snowball. In order not to get crushed, we need community leadership that is effective, consistent, and professional.
Sadly, I think Bruce's continued outbursts have really damaged his credibility, and by extension the credibility of the entire free/open software movement. If there are still serious disagreements of principle, then fine, state them and go your separate ways if necessary. But please spare us yet another political drama - it only damages us all.
Interesting points made in that article about Linux diversity. Is it good that there are several major distributions of Linux that are market dominating, or is it a problem? How will traditional businesses thread through the Linux community?
The fun thing about this bug in Microsoft HTML production is it damages the quality of news sites like MSNBC. It's a lot harder to read a story when you can't tell what parts of text are quotes, and what parts are the author's own text. It was worse in Netscape 3.0 - it just displayed a space, not a question mark.
I like the idea of an Apache module that fixes things on the way out.
I don't understand why the first responses are negative, about Corel giving up on Unix or losing out.
It sounds to me like Corel just spun this hardware operation off to another company. This makes perfect sense - Corel is a *software* company, hardware is not their expertise. Turn the hardware business over to a hardware company, and in exchange own a big chunk of that company. Then Corel can go back to focussing on software.
This sounds like very good news for Corel and the Netwinder to me.
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The content of Miguel's message aside, I just wanted to remark about how classy his message was. No flaming, no nastiness, just a quiet and reasonable editorial about one way to look at the situation.
Thank you, Miguel.
Argh, I just ordered a new video card. I wanted a TNT2, but I went with a Matrox card because I mostly need 2d graphics and XFree86 supports the G200 well. If I'd only known this a week ago, I would have bought a TNT2 instead. Oh well, next time!
The player looks nice, but check out the info on their encoder: http://www.yepp.co.kr/product/pro duct_body05.html. That looks like the killer product to me.
I'm dying of curiousity - anyone know what Redhat's valuation is? A few publically traded companies have bought pieces of Redhat now; do they have to disclose information?
JWZ has been around a long time as a good code hack. Anyone remember alt.fan.jwz, from about 6 years ago? I remember when MCOM hired JWZ, thinking "oh, maybe that company will go somewhere". He's a talented guy. His comments about the problems with Mozilla are worth reading and taking to heart. A lot of companies are experimenting with open source now; we in the community can help open source by understanding how it works, when it doesn't.
Many congratulations to the Blackdown folks for getting the prerelease of the port out. Great work, guys! We really appreciate what you've done.
To the Linux community - Java is very important for the future of Linux, it's imperative that Java work well on it. Java is already the language for Internet programming, and it's becoming the language for embedded networking thanks to Jini. Linux is uniquely positioned to serve these areas. We have a real opportunity here, especially now that Microsoft is dropping the Java ball.
The one problem left is the licensing model - Java isn't exactly Free. But Sun is pursuing very interesting licensing terms with their Community Source License; it's worth a look. The SCSL isn't Open Source (tm), it's more restricted so that Sun has a commercial angle on their work. But overall, it's interesting. They're pursuing this strategy very aggressively, releasing Solaris and their CPU designs (Sparc and picoJava) under SCSL.
I'm very saddened to read this latest message from Bruce. He's done a lot to help the free/open software movement. But recently, he's done a lot to hurt it as well. At some point the community has to stop debating fine matters of principle and present a united front.
Linux is playing with the big boys now - the announcements of SGI and IBM this week are just the latest in the Linux snowball. In order not to get crushed, we need community leadership that is effective, consistent, and professional.
Sadly, I think Bruce's continued outbursts have really damaged his credibility, and by extension the credibility of the entire free/open software movement. If there are still serious disagreements of principle, then fine, state them and go your separate ways if necessary. But please spare us yet another political drama - it only damages us all.
Respectfully,
Nelson
Interesting points made in that article about Linux diversity. Is it good that there are several major distributions of Linux that are market dominating, or is it a problem? How will traditional businesses thread through the Linux community?
The fun thing about this bug in Microsoft HTML production is it damages the quality of news sites like MSNBC. It's a lot harder to read a story when you can't tell what parts of text are quotes, and what parts are the author's own text. It was worse in Netscape 3.0 - it just displayed a space, not a question mark.
I like the idea of an Apache module that fixes things on the way out.
This same note was on Memepool a few days ago. It's good to credit sources.
I don't understand why the first responses are negative, about Corel giving up on Unix or losing out.
It sounds to me like Corel just spun this hardware operation off to another company. This makes perfect sense - Corel is a *software* company, hardware is not their expertise. Turn the hardware business over to a hardware company, and in exchange own a big chunk of that company. Then Corel can go back to focussing on software.
This sounds like very good news for Corel and the Netwinder to me.