Riel’s Law of Innovation
they *have* to target their development to work on
marketable features, while we have more liberty to
focus on things that provide our users with value
— even if they are not glamorous enough to use
in marketing material.
Recent Posts
A Think Tank of One (or Ten Million, take your pick)
Two months ago I blogged about the best open source presentation ever?, which was remarkable because mostly when I read what other people have to say about open source, I’m much less charitable (for example, this about James DeLong’s latest paid product).
Open Source takes center stage at Yale Conference
On the just concluded Access to Knowledge Conference run by the Yale Law School Information Society Project, Open Source came out clear champion. Distinguished participants on this prestigious conference singles…
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It is a privilege to be part of OSI. Look forward to great things ahead.
NCIS gets Open Source right!
NCIS gets Open Source right! This is probably courtesy of Sean Murray, who is arguably geekier than the character he plays. In this episode, his character, McGee, says “I was…
FLOSSCom looking for survey participants
The European Union funded FLOSSCom research project is investigating Free / Libre Open Source software (FLOSS) communities as learning environments. They want to identify principles of FLOSS communities that could…
Minister of Communications opens FOSS meeting
It was an overwhelming surprise to hear the Ghanaian minister of Communications – Mike Oquaye, give the government’s full support to Open Source. This was at the opening ceremony of…
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Open Source as an input
There’s a Slashdot story today on Tech Sector Expansion Blunting U.S. Job Outsourcing. This is 100% predictable. In fact, I did predict it two years ago. When something becomes cheaper,…
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Just that
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Just that