Think Globally, Meet Locally
It’s been a busy week in the Boston area for me, with lots of “meat space” (not my favorite description, as a vegan) or “real world” (not my favorite description as a net citizen) meetings to go with...
View ArticleOpen Source, Freedom 0, and Mac OS X
I’ve been reflecting a lot lately on this blog post from Coding Horror: Why Doesn’t Anyone Give a Crap About Freedom Zero? Atwood argues that: when you buy a new Mac, you’re buying a giant hardware...
View ArticleCommunity, Gender, and Free/Open Source Software
Just came across yet another excellent post from Alex Russell of the Dojo project (and foundation): “The Price of Anonymity: Our Principles?” Russell uses the occasion of some nasty comments in Digg on...
View ArticleOpen Source versus Free Software from a Marketing Perspective
Via Sandro Grogans comes an interesting interview / discussion from http://initmarketing.tv/ about the use of the phrases “open source” and “free software” and the need to tailor the message to the...
View ArticleZeldman on the maturity of Open Source CMS
Quick excerpt from an interview with Jeffrey Zeldman which includes some discussion of the impact of Open Source, and particularly open source CMS’s, on the process of designing and building web...
View ArticleThe Dirt on Open Source Licensing
I’m a big fan of podcasts, and listen to a wide variety of them regularly. So much so that it isn’t uncommon for me to have a couple months worth of backlog sitting on my phone and iPad (synced via...
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