Business Week has written a series [1], [2], [3] of articles on the One Laptop Per Child project this week, and none are too favorable. I myself have blogged my…

Apparently somebody somewhere sometime recently called Walter Bender, late of the OLPC, an open source fundamentalist. Walter expressed confusion about what that meant. I wish I could clear it up…

I first met Dr. Phatak at the Red Hat Summit in New Orleans in 2005. Dr. Phatak exemplifies what Amartya Sen lovingly calls The Argumentative Indian. Dr. Phatak is passionate,…

This report is a summary of Zak Greant‘s Open Source Initiative activities from April 13th to May 17th, 2008. These Weeks Dropped the ball on my OSI volunteer work due…

Sometimes I want to declare victory and go home. Of course, that’s usually an admission of defeat, but I really think that with news like Verizon Embraces Linux, that the…

Last month I was honored to be a keynote speaker at the Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T) annual meeting. Open Source has become a major topic on…

I recently got myself a Flickr Pro account, and have been using Flickr for more of my photos. I find myself more and more annoyed at the rough edges in…

For the past several years I’ve printed various documents at home by sending them to my wife Amy with a request “Please print…”. And after several years we both know…

Many, many programs written in C or C++ use a file called “config.h” which contains #define statement that control the compilation of the program. These programs are also nearly always built using ‘make’.

I claim that these two attributes are in conflict with each other. Or, in layman’s terms, “config.h sucks”. The problem is that when you have multiple options in config.h, every file which may be compiled differently depending on the values defined therein must be recompiled whenever config.h changes.

The Open Source Initiative ran the first Open Source Awards, but when we dropped them, Google and O’Reilly picked up the idea (yay!). Nominations are currently open, but close in…

We’re realizing is that Open Source is more than just free software. Free software is like free rocks. You need rocks, but rocks aren’t enough to build a house. You…

The subtitle of this Computer World report quotes Nicholas Negroponte as saying that insitence on Open Source scares people away. Boggle. I believe that without open source, the fundamental purpose…