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Stark Bloggin' Mad!

Wow!!! OK, so how is it that a few innocent tweets about the iPad getsme embroiled in a little Twitter /blogosphere skirmish with a colleague?Who would have thunk it? It's not just...

15 years 7 months ago

M2M, the Buzzword

The one I am referring to is an abbreviation of Machine to Machine. It'ssimply a communication mechanism between machines or devices. Thecommunication is done with minimal or no...

15 years 10 months ago

Commercial Open-Source; An Oxymoron?

The dictionary describes Oxymorons as “literary figures of speech usually composed of a pair of neighboring contradictory words (often within a sentence) or a combination of...

IANAL, BSD, GPL, LGPL, ABCs

Slashdot pointed me to this article by Bruce Parensaimed at clearing some of the air around using GPL and LGPL andcommercially licensed product on the same device. Of course...

16 years 7 months ago

Can an LGPL Qt give C++ a lift?

Black Duck recently announced their top Rookie Open Source projects for 2008which using a bit of a weird metric, revealed the top 10 open sourceprojects that were created in 2008...

16 years 8 months ago

Target Communication Framework (TCF)

A year ago at EclipseCon, I’ve been asked a lot whether there wasn’t alightweight Open Source agent for resource-constrained communicationswith remote systems planned or available...

17 years 6 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...

18 years 1 month 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...

18 years 3 months ago

Shared Source and Windows CE

I read with some excitement Microsoft’s recent announcement of their shared source release of Windows CE 6.0. Microsoft has clearly recognized what many RTOS companies have...

18 years 10 months ago

MS taking some pain out of WinCE?

Microsoft has released WinCE 6.0 – this time as a " shared source"release, with various enhancements. Some of the big claims-to-fame:It’s the "first commercial hard real-time OS...

18 years 10 months ago