Archive for May, 2008
What a tangled Web we weave
Patents, it seems, are something to come back to time and again.
At the end of 2006, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer indicated that Microsoft thought Linux was infringing on their intellectual property rights. If this issue sounds familiar, it is because I talked about the idea of who owns what and how open source faces [...]
Google for president
Derek Zoolander “Or did you think I’d be too stupid to know what a eu-google-y was?” (with apologies to Drake Sather and Ben Stiller, the writers of Zoolander).
A key issue that I have noticed with open source is that it is not aimed at a niche online market. For open source to work effectively it [...]
Open source for africa
This week Tectonic kindly alerted me to the way in which open source is helping people less fortunate than the Silicone Valley millionaires. Or is that billionaires?
Linux Africa distributors have come up with a way to help provide Internet connections and software access which will reduce basic access costs for people in Africa. The idea [...]
Not all open sourcers are nice people
Most things which I write about open source are based on the assumption that people who contribute to open source production are doing it (at least to a degree) to benefit others. Which on some level means they care about other people.
This week, however, my eyes were opened to a whole new and seriously weird [...]
