Information Manager Journal

Silverlight breaks RSS at Channel 9?

A few days ago the Microsoft Channel 9 Web site started highly recommending use of Microsoft Silverlight. Around the same time, the Channel 9 RSS feed broke. If it's still broke when you read this, you can still read the syntax errors at the feed URL. Is the Silverlight upgrade the culprit? It seems likely to me.

Microsoft, of all companies, should have world-class support of RSS. Let them know you don't like it when it breaks.

UPDATE: As of Thursday, January 24 at noon California time, the feed is working again. Microsoft's Charles Torre emailed me yesterday that "the code is choking, which it shouldn't." The broken feed was the subject of a Channel 9 community thread starting around 7 p.m. last night, but at present, no one from Microsoft has responded to that thread, or to me personally, stating that the feed is working again, or why it broke in the first place.

So will Sun now be a member of Eclipse Foundation?

Since MySQL AB is a member of the Eclipse Foundation, when Sun's acquisition of MySQL is completed later this spring, does Sun automatically become a member of the Foundation? I hope some sharp analyst asked this question during the conference call yesterday. I'm going to listen myself to the replay to check it out. UPDATE: I just listened, and it did not come up. I predict the question of MySQL's continued involvement with Eclipse will become the interesting fault line to watch as this merger of the MySQL and Sun communities goes forward.

Anti-patent MySQL AB being swallowed by more equivocal Sun

MySQL AB, a company outspoken in its criticisms of software patents, will become part of Sun Microsystems, which tolerates such patents, presumably as a kind of necessary evil. This will leave the anti-software patent leadership in the hands of the EFF, Richard Stallman, and the like, while we wait to see if a new corporate champion emerges.

Pay no attention to that open source behind the curtain

Link of the day: Microsoft Hypocrites: Pro MS sites that run open source.