A Day in Paradise

A post on slashdot reminded me of the lack of business sense in many open source programmers.
“I’ve been working on a financial application which I’ve decided to release to the public. I want to make some money from the application, though I certainly don’t expect to become a millionaire. The problem is that I’d like […]

Don Dodge coined Web2.0 as “Web App + 2 Founders + 0 Revenue”. Funny, and not too far off the money.
Don goes into detail about the various ways that Web2.0 firms are funding their efforts. This goes from Freemium (free basic membership with paid premium package) to Subscriptions to simple Advertising.
One thing that he doesn’t […]

This interesting post describes one or the reasons why PEAR/PECL doesn’t allow (L)GPL code in the repositories
The problem that I’ve stumbled upon is that Ruby’s Gem repository is full of randomly licensed code, including lots of GPL stuff. At the very least, this information ought to be very visible so that it’s possible to weed […]

This is so wrong that I have to blog about it… in this month’s Forbes magazine they have this description of Open Source in their “Network Breakthrough Innovations” section:
1991 Finnish programmer Linus Torvalds kicks off open-source movement, a sort of wiki of computer code, with a plea for contributions to Linux operating system.
That’s pretty funny… […]

I am finally back online on ALL my IM protocols, thanks to the newly branded pidgin client.
GAIM has always been a fantastic project, and I look forward to Pidgin following in its footsteps.
UPGRADE NOW!

I’ve always liked M.R., he’s a focused businessman whose goals line up roughly with those of the the open source community.
Yesterday linspire annouced a partnership with Canonical to use the Ubuntu OS as the new base for Linspire (a no-brainer choice as far as I am concerned), which will have the added benefit(?) of […]

Just a quick note to let my planetary friends that I’ve created a page that is tracking all information about my Zend Framework Hidden Gems series of articles.
More information on my Zend Framework Hidden Gems page.
I’m not going to waste blog space reiterating what is covered in the link above, but just wanted to mention […]

A nice tutorial on GIT explains the development of the program, and Linux’s history.
Torvalds began working on Git as an interim solution to replace BitKeeper, which had previously been the primary source code tool in use by Linux kernel developers worldwide. Some members of the open source community felt that the BitKeeper license was not […]