“The only way that[ customer-benefiting interoperability is] possible is for companies to really be open to licensing arrangements and building these bridges that people thought were impossible before, among different providers and among different software development models.” –Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft’s vice president of intellectual property and licensing
Or, you know, you could agree not to assert [...]
I love this slide deck, and (mostly) this one too. Need to figure out if I can pull something like that off next time I need to do a powerpoint presentation. I doubt it, but I can give it a shot.
One of the comments to Matt Asay’s post about me over the winter asked what I think was a pretty good question, and one that has been asked in a couple variations this summer:
…I am usually saddened to see that law becomes a necessarily evil in science (programming in this case). Why can’t we just [...]
It is incredible how so few people can get so many things wrong in so few emails, especially when there are actually people saying the right thing right there in the thread.
(for those whose instinctive response is ‘well duh, it is debian-legal’, I unsubscribed… jeez, most of a decade ago now, and may have [...]
Can truly great things be created without arrogance?
(You can spit on me or suggest a missing link in the comments.)
[Ed.: I realized later this might have been taken as a commentary on my new job; I actually wrote this post some months ago without posting it and isn't RH-related at all. My summer resolution is [...]
As I’ve now had several RDU-based people approach me about meals in recent days, and ask if I’d be interested in lunch, let me be clear: the answer is definitely ‘yes, I’m interested!’ The only question is about my availability; I’ll be traveling many weekends and know lots of folks down here who want to [...]
Hadn’t seen this one before:
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
– R. Buckminster Fuller
Kudos to those who are doing that. (I was going to make a list, but it was longer than I expected- which is great.)
This is the most depressing thing I’ve read all morning. (Granted I’ve only been up for 15 minutes.) Remember, kids, choice is usually just another way of saying “the engineers and PMs don’t have the balls to make the hard decisions, so instead we’re going to give the users a ‘choice’ they can’t possibly make [...]
I’m exhausted. And I’ve only barely started. This is great… I’d almost forgotten what it is like to do something because you’re really interested in it, rather than running in fear :) [Edit: I realize that could be misconstrued to be a comparison to past jobs; it was supposed to be to the last year [...]
The recurring question lawyers ask first year law students when they meet them is something like ’so what do you want to specialize in?’ The answer I really want to give is something like ‘open source law generalist’, but sadly that isn’t really something that people hire, and probably isn’t something you’d really want to [...]