Enter The JBoss Matrix
C’mon Mr. Fleury, really? People are stealing BSD/Apache code? How can one steal something that we are giving away? That’s like saying I am stealing air every time I breathe. If anything, more people steal (L)GPL code, if you assume the notion of theft applies at all, given that they use it [...]
What Would Microsoft Do with Yahoo’s Zimbra? - Yahoo! News
Or, perhaps this is Microsoft’s “out”… Basic premise, MS buys Y! which is doing a lot more to support Open Source these days. MS has always been viewed as anti Open Source because of the Linux debacle, among other things. Buying Y! gives them a way [...]
Google Leads Attack on Microsoft-Yahoo Merger - Yahoo! News
In a Google Blog post Sunday, David Drummond, Google’s chief legal officer, called on regulators to examine “thoroughly” the questions raised by Microsoft’s offer, while reminding everyone that Google stands for “openness and innovation.”
What do people think? Is Google open? My gut says no, but I [...]
BackwardsCompatibility - Lucene-java Wiki
Hmmm, so I have been pondering this for a while and don’t quite know a good solution… So help would be appreciated.
As an active developer of Lucene, we have pretty strict rules about Backwards Compatibility, as evidenced by the link given above. For the most part, what this translates to, is the [...]
So the running joke in open source is that anytime you need to know how something works, you should just go look at the code. Thus, the documentation in the large majority of open source projects really sucks. Now, I have been a long time user and contributer to open source and have always gotten [...]
Whew, finally some time to talk about ApacheCon Europe, which happened two weeks ago in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
First off, the trip started off on a bad foot when our flight to Paris, France got canceled due to bad weather in Newark. Unfortunately, we didn’t get the message from the airline in the morning because [...]
Grant’s Grunts is proudly powered by
WordPress
Entries (RSS)
and Comments (RSS).
Copyright © Grant Ingersoll 2005-2006
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.