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OSCON outgrows Portland

After six years of bringing 2,000 people each summer to the Oregon Conference Center in Portland, O'Reilly is moving the show to the Bay Area for next year. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: LinuxWorld, Portland, OSCON, Linux, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-09-11

The tribes of open source gather at OSCON

If every show is a trial, users are the jury. You make your decisions signing support contracts, ordering online, in stores, in what you tell your friends. Without you there's no show. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Geek, OSCON, Wannabes, Open Source, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-07-22

What is on your OSCON agenda?

What is on your OSCON agenda?The most important thing is continue defining and promoting LSB.We need drivers that are LSB versioned, NOT versioned by distribution version. We also need driver systems that are backwards compatible so they can load old drivers. And of course we need better coverage in general...

Tags: Printers, Desktops, Scripting languages, Programming languages, Development tools, OSCON, OSCON Agenda, desktop, LSB

Discussion threads 2007-07-20

What is on your OSCON agenda?

The Open Source Convention OSCON, one of the two big summer events on the open source calendar the other is LinuxWorld in San Francisco happens next week in Portland, Oregon.The two events are quite distinct: OSCON is a theater. LinuxWorld is a show floor. OSCON is intimate conversation. LinuxWorld is hard negotiation. OSCON...

Tags: Strategy, marketing, management, General, Events

Blog posts 2007-07-20

Google pre-empts OSCON headlines

Google pre-empts OSCON headlinesSourceforge killer?Oh, come on. I can accept Google is Google and things they do have consequences, but really some things are not done well under the traditional capitalist model and they are a publicly traded company. Try looking for a cheap collected edition of George...

Tags: Google Inc., OSCON

Discussion threads 2006-07-26

Qlusters serving all virtualization schemes

Qlusters serving all virtualization schemeshmmm.... Abundance, Asia, and automation""What developers need to realize is you can't sit on your laurels. If you just write the same thing you'll be commoditized."TRUE, THE PRESSURES MICROSOFT IS FACING TODAY FROM OSS (EG LINUX, OPEN OFFICE ..)"The goal should be to eliminate...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, OSCON, virtualization scheme, Qlusters, virtualization

Discussion threads 2006-07-25

Google pre-empts OSCON headlines

Google has grown so large that its every move is a big headline. It's like a yacht in the midst of rowboats, swamping everything around it, sometimes by accident. Another analogy might be a whale among minnows. ...

Tags: OSCON, Google Inc.

Blog posts 2006-07-25

Freedom to change: Nick Gall's OSCON keynote

Freedom to change: Nick Gall's OSCON keynote1212

Tags: Nick Gall, OSCON

Discussion threads 2005-08-04

Additional Resources

Why Mac open source gets no respect

"Since Macs generally cost less than PCs"THEY ARE? Since when? And that doesn't jive at all with "Macs are upscale"... and cheaper. Mmmm no.No counterpart to XBMC?There are a ton of Media Center applications for windows, including Windows Media Center, which is fairly adept at just about...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Mac people, Apple Macintosh, XBMC, MCE, Unix

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

Open source advocates still called zealots

Open source advocates still called zealotsHow about Microsoft zealots?I am certain any group includes a few wackies. Law of averages and all. If the shoe fits....... wear it!I find it funny...the a blogger calls what a journalist does worthless. Considering the difference in quality control and that...

Tags: Blogging, word zealot, Moderators, Ashlee Vance, NYT, open source, zealot, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-24

Adobe goes corporate open source against Ogg Theora

Adobe goes corporate open source against Ogg TheoraAbsolutely, and it gets worse...This is just Adobe PR trying to pre-empt a possible win by "rtmpdump" at the SourceForge / OSCON awards (to be announced on the 23rd).For details on what Adobe *really* thinks about Open Source and Open Standards, read the...

Tags: Proprietary Formats, Theora, Adobe Systems Inc., open source, Ogg Theora, H264, corporate open source

Discussion threads 2009-07-21

Pigs do fly: Microsoft unleashes 20,000 lines of Linux code

Nope, that's not a typo in the headline. Microsoft is releasing three Microsoft-developed Linux drivers to the Linux community for possible inclusion in the Linux source tree, the company announced on the opening day of the OSCON open-source conference. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-07-20

Forbes rewrites the history of open source

Forbes rewrites the history of open sourceI guess it was a political articleYou just convinced me that the purpose of this article in Forbes being written was to score political points. Which makes its rewriting of history doubly-disgusting.Libertarian?I'm pretty sure the GPL is normally associated with socialism, not libertarianism. Libertarians...

Tags: open source, Forbes, libertarian, software

Discussion threads 2008-08-18

Microsoft makes pledges to support Apache, PHP, Ruby

 Like Dana, I was surprised to hear of Microsoft's decision to become a platinum sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation, announced at OSCON late last week. It wasn't the only announcement.  The Redmond, Wash based Windows giant also shared that it would make a contribution to the...

Tags: PHP, Apache Software Foundation, Ruby, Microsoft Corp., Scripting Languages, Open Source, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-07-28

News to know: Yahoo; VMware; Apple; DNS vulnerability

Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle RIM ships fix for BlackBerry code execution bug Dancho Danchev: Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, DNS, Yahoo! Inc., Vulnerability, Dana Blankenhorn, Health Care, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., App Store, Banking, Vertical Industries, Domain Names, Benefits, Healthcare, Security, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Human Resources

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Why McLuhan was right when it comes to attention

Through his always enriching podcast, I've heard Cory Doctorow give variations on his privacy talk at least five or six times over the last year. The most current iteration is available at Intel's/Josh Bancroft's BitStories. In responding to an audience question, Cory explains exactly why, when it comes...

Tags: Message, Liberty, Computer, Cory, Productivity, Podcasts, Internet, Denise Howell

Blog posts 2007-09-25

Will Microsoft fit into OSI compromise?

The last time I wrote about the OSI it was to praise the "peace deal" it made on the licensing front.The question today is, can Microsoft fit inside that deal?At the same OSCON conference where OSI approved its first "attribution" license, Microsoft "good cop" Bill Hilf left said last week...

Tags: Strategy, Software Licensing, Red Hat, Microsoft, Legal, General, Events

Blog posts 2007-07-31

Roundup of Adobe announcements last week

Adobe made a bunch of announcements yesterday that I couldn't do justice because I was at OSCON. A lot of them are from Kevin Lynch's keynote speech at the Ajax Experience but we also had a couple of others. Ajaxian had a great writeup of Kevin's keynote that is well...

Tags: Flash, ColdFusion, Ajax, Adobe

Blog posts 2007-07-30

Should we take Wikia more seriously?

One of the big stories of the weekend was Wikia's purchase of the Grub spider from LookSmart and its release under an open source license.Media around the world went into hype -rdrive, repeating Jimmy Wales' comments at OSCON that Wikia would now take on Google and Yahoo.You see, Google and...

Tags: mass market, Internet, Google, General, Database Management, content

Blog posts 2007-07-30

WHurley spins BMC into open source

William Hurley, who goes by WHurley, has been an open source advocate and organizer for many years.When he left Qlusters recently for BMC Software, the Houston-based company which began with accounting software and grew like a snip of oilpatch,  I wondered how far he could spin that company toward open source.The...

Tags: Strategy, management, Enterprise Policy, business models, BSD, Applications

Blog posts 2007-07-27