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An Industry and Technology Revolution is on the Horizon

Limo, and in a slightly different way Android , have killed the standards-based approach to open source development in mobile. In the Linux world, creating an esoteric, theoretical...

17 years 5 months ago

Pointy Haired Boss: Open Source Software is Free!

Today’s Dilbert says it all. There are far too many "free as in open, not free as in beer" blog posts for me to rehash this is great detail ( wikipedia , my post ). But this comic...

17 years 10 months ago

Linux Foundation's Collaboration Summit

Today was the first day of the inaugural Linux Foundation ‘s Collaboration Summit . In case you don’t remember the Linux Foundation was formed as merger of the Open Source...

Real-time Reality

I love Mondays. Most people hate them but I’ve always loved them. My family has grown to accept this. My co-workers have learned to tolerate this (it’s when I hold my staff...

18 years 2 months ago

The Perils and Pitfalls of Young Eclipse Projects

A wise Eclipse Director of Open Source Process once told me, "Don’t incubate too many projects at once, it’s very difficult." As he incubates a ridiculous number of them himself, I...

18 years 2 months ago

Carrier Grade Linux version 4.0 specification is released

Last week saw Carrier Grade Linux take a further step forward with the release of the latest version of the specification. The CGL 4.0 document , released on 26th February 2007, is...

18 years 3 months ago

What About VxWorks?

There was quite a bit of media coverage about Wind River’s announcement last week, but if you haven’t already read about it, we acquired the intellectual property for RTLinux , the...

18 years 3 months ago

BT encouraged to be more open

I have often written in this blog about open source and its use in the kinds of equipment which sits at the heart of telecommunications networks. Carrier Grade Linux and other open...

18 years 4 months ago

Eclipse is Who?

I don’t want to beat a dead horse on the “Eclipse is You” thread ( Bjorn , Doug , Steve , Eugene , Doug , Ian , Dennis , Bjorn , John ), but I figured everyone else is tired of...

18 years 5 months ago

Open Source makes Free Beer possible

Open source has made a lot of things possible in the years since it first appeared. Of course, Linux is probably the best known open source project but there are also countless...

18 years 6 months ago