BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. At first I thought the reports of Red Hat and AOL in discussions were a joke. However, I found out otherwise. I like my friend Andy’s view of the possibility at O’Reilly – chances are this is going to be a mix that won’t favor either open source or technical innovation. AOL […]
Love and Kisses, Bill [1/17/2002 11:52:40 AM | Shelley Powers] Bill Gates sent an email (copy at the Register) about how the company is going to have to get tougher on security. I stole a copy of it from the Register to present here, along with my own crystal ball interpretation (not actual fact, you understand) of how […]
Found at Eclectic – an RDF to SVG tool. You’ve heard about RDF before in this weblog — consider it a meta-language for describing data on the web (and elsewhere). Though you can represent RDF in various forms, the most commonly used technique is XML. SVG is Scalable Vector Graphics and is a way of describing 2D graphics in XML. Nice tool, though […]
I read an essay, Greg Ritter wrote on open source. If you follow my weblog, then you might remember Greg as the person who convinced me that I must burn less, reason more – a resolution that lasted about 1 day. Greg wrote his essay, titled Open Source Zealots Don’t Get it in response to a News Forge […]
I couldn’t figure out what it reminded me of — all these Radio 8.0 weblogs hitting www.weblogs.com all at once. It was familiar, I’d seen this before. “cool” “test” “just testing” “Hello World” Then I remembered… It was just like the day when AOL released six million newbies on to the Usenet — all at […]