Chrome, you’re here!
For my last blog post I thought I might do a little wrap up and give deep, meaningful and quite probably thumb-sucked predictions for the future of open source blah, blah, blah. BUT THEN! Google popped up with a ’surprise’. It’s very own OS browser. And since they are now one step closer to world [...]
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I’m not a fan of public ablutions. I lived in res for three years and the reality of communal everything is something I got over about 2 and a 1/2 years ago. And for some unknown reason when someone says the word ‘communal’, my brain automatically associates with the idea of a commune. Which in [...]
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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 [...]
Oops, we made a billion dollars
In a 2005 article on techworld.com there is an amusing quotation by someone described as “a Mozilla spokesman in Europe” who said “It’s not the case that someone is taking Firefox and making a lot of money. The revenue we have made is almost accidental.” I think the concept of open source software is very [...]
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