Java's not even *fun* enough to laugh at. I expect after your sabbatical you would be trolling at Scala or Haskell or Go ! What's next ? Jokes about making GUIs in VB ? Pshh. Seriously though, I can get the attack on privateness and finality. From someone with a strong dynamic tropism, that makes sense. But that good…
Ubuntu 10.10, the Maverick Meerkat, will be released in just a couple of weeks. That got me reflecting on the fact that I have been a happ...
This looks huge: Глава правительства Владимир Путин подписал план перехода властных структур и федеральных бюджетников на свободное ПО. Сог...
About some problems I'm having with old open source projects and a Github feature request to try and fix them.
I've written before about my deep skepticism regarding the true motives of Canonical, Ltd.'s advocacy and demand of for-profit corporate copyright assignment without promises to adhere to copyleft . I've often asked Canonical employees, including Jono Bacon , Amanda Brock , Jane Silber , Mark Shuttleworth himself, and…
This is probably old news to most, but I've discovered recently that github has won.
Miguel de Icaza's Blog
Prior to joining Google I always joked that Google was the black hole that swallowed up open source programmers. I'd see awesome, productive hackers join Google and then hear little to nothing from them afterwards. When I joined I decided I'd solve this mystery and post about it but it's been over…
(Warning: ill-advised rant ahead. Read the apology here.) In case you missed it: $SUBJECT is the percentage of contribution to the GNOME codebase. Thanks, Dave Neary. An upside of not working for…
The original call to switch to the term `open source'.
