Everybody Has A Share

The Mesh shares stuff

It seems appropriate to mention The Mesh here. Is it a DMOZ for the next decade, or something more?

Ubuntu: Open but complicated

Open source is getting (too) complicated, Exhibit A: NASA drops Ubuntu's Koala food for (real) open source. Good reporting from The Register about a real "openness" problem for Ubuntu and, if it spreads, for all of Linux.

Advantage: The Google map API

"Cash starved startups, building interesting and innovative mobile apps, will undoubtedly build on Google’s map API." -- Bill Gurley, October 2009

Rich=not worth reading

"I have no enthusiasm for emails laden with “rich” HTML, JavaScript, Flash and the like. These kinds of emails are invariably marketing and usually not worth reading." -- Tim Anderson, June 2009

The wrong time to find out

"The problem with services is that you never really know what you're buying until something goes wrong." -- Peter Coffee, eWeek Infraspectrum podcast, August 25, 2006

Leveraging pitchforks

"Building a commercial company dependant on a volunteer community is tough to say the least. Of course RedHat developed their own flavor of Linux, but they did it by leveraging an existing enormous community of developers who were at their wits end with Microsoft. In their case the peasants (the developer community) were coming over the hills with pitch forks ready to attack Microsoft, and the smart people at RedHat were able to leverage the movement. Good for RedHat. There's no such movement in network management." -- Steve Goodman, February 2008

The end of (some) open source

"At some point every project has to decide when legacy versions will no longer be supported. This is true of open source projects as well." -- Phil Windley, July 2007

Public decision-making

"What makes something like Linux successful isn't the availability of code; most people never even see it. The important part of open-source is transparency and a decision-making process open to public criticism." -- Tim O'Brien, September 2004

Microsoft vs. Google: Your choice

"Microsoft gives you an integrated stack but all the moving parts are anchored on a single company's vision. Google frees you to work out the bits yourself, but you must rely on your own smarts or those of your chosen tools." -- Gavin Clarke, June 2009

20-year-old apps that still work

"20 year old UNIX apps still work today! And enterprises like that kind of ROI." -- Christian Gross, September 2004