- Dear #CentOS, get your stuff sorted ASAP. This is hurting your credibility. #notgood http://ur1.ca/893c http://ur1.ca/893d #
- Preparing lunch n learn for our new virt solution. #
- So while California is in trouble, taxpayers bailout money was used to pay billions of bonuses. #US #irony http://ur1.ca/894d #
- Dag Wieers gives a bit more insight in #CentOS situation: http://dag.wieers.com/blog/the-burden-of-keeping-things-private #
- As US taxpayer I would be very angry now seeing that my taxes are used to pay bonuses to bankers who caused the whole problem. #
- For the US at least I would suggest to rename financial crisis to tax-backed cash machine AKA legalized bank robbery. #
- Tired. Exhausted. But satisfied. Lots of stuff happening around me and finally I have some time to document it. Will fill my blog. #
- Skype in trouble? If they had used Open Source , they wouldn’t have this trouble. http://is.gd/1W5oY #licensing #oops #
- After all, it sounds a lot like the #kazaa way of thinking at #skype. shady. #
- Wow. http://www.edos-project.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Publications #
- 1 billion Firefox downloads reached! Wow. #
- I just also booked livingopensource.org. Now to build a website on it. Using #elgg. I want to prgram again. I miss the hacking. #
- @quaid added myself to CC list, will spend sonme time on it next week. #
- next step towards the new financial system done. Booked domain names. #gandi.net rulez
# - looking for #elgg lovers in Munich. Care for a beer? #
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Interesting stuff.
http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/789019/000119312509158735/d10k.htm#tx73014_3
“Open source commonly refers to software whose source code is subject to
a license allowing it to be modified, combined with other software and
redistributed, subject to restrictions set forth in the license. A
number of commercial firms compete with us using an open source business
model by modifying and then distributing open source software to end
users at nominal cost and earning revenue on complementary services and
products. These firms do not bear the full costs of research and
development for the software. Some of these firms may build upon
Microsoft ideas that we provide to them free or at low royalties in
connection with our interoperability initiatives.”
[Oh no. This interop thingy and the EU. They force M$ to open up stuff
that then gets implemented in Open Source. Interop steals their revenue!
How dare they!]
“We are devoting significant resources toward developing our own
competing software plus services strategies including the Windows Azure
Platform, our hosted computing platform designed to facilitate the
rapid, flexible and scalable development of cloud-based services. It is
uncertain whether these strategies will be successful. “
[Translated: We invest in the hype but we dunno if it will ever work.]
“Similarly, the absence of harmonized patent laws makes it more
difficult to ensure consistent respect for patent rights. Throughout the
world, we actively educate consumers about the benefits of licensing
genuine products and obtaining indemnification benefits for intellectual
property risks, and we educate lawmakers about the advantages of a
business climate where intellectual property rights are protected.”
[Translated: We lobby heavily for more patents and against open standards.]
“The [European] Commission’s impact on product design may limit our
ability to innovate in Windows or other products in the future, diminish
the developer appeal of the Windows platform, and increase our product
development costs. The availability of licenses related to protocols and
file formats may enable competitors to develop software products that
better mimic the functionality of our own products which could result in
decreased sales of our products.”
[Wow. So forcing M$ to respect the valid laws of competition is painted
as "impact on product design" and interoperability is painted as
competitors are now able to destroy M$ revenue? Remember - M$ was found
guilty of breaking laws.]
Tags: OpenMinds
- @krisbuytaert so youre sick today?
# - No comment. Just fun. http://ur1.ca/87pf #
- Hrmpf. Lets see. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQcVllWpwGsfeature=channel #
- ANd while we are at it, this one is also cool http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTPsFIsxM3w #
- @floschi Weia, macht Spaceboy jetzt die Debian-Orga? http://www.heise.de/open/Die-Woche-Debian-und-puenktliche-Releases–/artikel/142845 #
- Hey, #CentOS – what is going on? #worried #needinfo #
- @floschi mar shuttleworth #
- Pfabsh have fun #
- Dear #identi.ca, will you please fix your facebook app and make it work reliable? #
- @mairin beer is always the remedy. #
- Thanks for everything, #yahoo. I never used your services and will not miss them. Maybe you can now become XHTML compliant. #
- How can this be? Red Hat is not alone! Impossible http://blogs.digium.com/2009/07/29/the-success-of-commercial-open-source-software/ #
- @kanarip care to elaborate? #
- @kanarip you know more on the CentOS situation? #
- Community lesson #3 – always make sure you are replaceable. Ideas are more important than people. #
- Today my first two sessions with the new virt solution in the munich demolab. Wish me luck! #
- @einfeldt shouldnt that be: support the Linux foundation … ? #
- Finishing touches on the demolab setup. Looking good. Will shock my audience with #KVM and #SPICE. #
- @kanarip its all in 5.4 Beta. Still couldnt find server srpms for fedora. #
- @kanarip With RHEV the client gets installed automagically once you login to the user portal. #
- @kanarip so my client is running happily on F10 x86_64 #
- This evening a fine panel discussion on hacking the financial system towards a transnational and open alternative #
- @floschi redhat.com? #
- @floschi – it is in closed Beta ATM, so youll have to visit me for the full scoop #
- @fabsh only real openness wins. #failwhale #
- Live migrating a virt machine running a youtube video – no problem KVM/SPICE rulez! #
- @jneves: iSCSI served from a RHEL5 box. #
- @jneves and a second cluster with FC. #
- @jneves not yet #
- @carlopiana very good. #
- Trying to find an ATM is a problem in this part of Munich. #
- Nice. Glockenbachwerkstatt. Working my #needbeer. #
- Financial crisis panel discussion with #zoche. #
- All, check politube.org. Listening to the founder explaining it ATM. #
- Where is the reset button for the financial world? Nice question #
- WRT #Microhoo v #Google – the winner will be community based seasrch engines. Trust me. #
- @glynmoody so Sony offers content in the Public Domain for free with Google? What is the newsworthy thing on that? #
- Panel discussion moves to a lower level. As expected. #
- OMG. Du pain, du vin, du Boursin commercial in german TV. Feels like time travelling. In NL they used that slogan 30y ago. #
- And again to the office. With light rain and a growing #needcoffee #
- @einfeldt think of this. Itunes etc. are defining their own laws, ignoring whatever law exists. Politicians ignore this ATM. For how long? #
- @einfeldt corporatism v openness – the next war #
- @einfeldt I am in that mission since 1993 … And still having fun. #
- @fabsh McD is evil by definition for some. Just as M$ is for me #
- @fabsh buy an #OLPC #
- @glynmoody – I need your email address, interesting info to share. #
- I love it when thing work out. Community lesson #1 – good ideas will grow at their own pace. #
- Community lesson #2 – but when things start, you better be prepared for the perfect storm. #
- Kicking to overdrive. Be very afraid. The world will be different in six months. #
- On my way to the office. Updating our new virt solution to the newest version. #
- The choice. Either slow sneakernet approach or unsupported fast approach. Checking my braveness. #
- @kanarip nope fast and furious method failed. Snakernet. #
- @kanarip I did manage to avoid sneakernet, ofcourse. 10 hypervisors upgraded. #
- @maximburgerhout anytime you want #
- Done for today. Everything upgraded, three new servers added to the racks. Wednesday the first customer meetings showing the result. #
- Nice. http://is.gd/1Nbf9 #
- On my way to munich. 4 hours of meeting planned. Little traffic jam on the A8. #
- #msft to fire 5000 people #rht continues to grow and hire. Sign o the times? #
- @floschi check handelsblatt, wsj.com etc. #
- @floschi last quarter at #msft was -30% revenue, YoY -6%. #
- @glynmoody reading the dynamic duo entries (mjasay and blankenhorn) I come to the conclusion that Red Hat must be from another galaxy #
- @mairin there is only so much one can do. #
- @mairin thats the hard part. I fail at that quite often. #