Archive for the 'Open Standards' Category
Friday, March 7th, 2008
The Linux Foundation is looking for a Community Manager: it could be you!
If you read my blog, you’re a potentially interested party for a new Community Manager position at the Linux Foundation. One perk they didn’t list is that someone in this position will also get great visibility and interaction with the Linux leads and team members at the various member organizations (e.g. IBM, HP, Intel, AMD, Oracle, etc. etc.). If you’re interested in the Linux community, this is a great position to be in.
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Jobs#Linux_Foundation_Community_Manager
Linux Foundation Community Manager
Linux Foundation Community Manager
We’re looking for world class talent to join the non-profit organization that is accelerating Linux. If you’re passionate about Linux, there is no better place to work. We have a unique opportunity for the right individual to make a huge difference in Linux.
The Community Manager must have both a technical and business view of key issues facing Linux and can do the following:
- Organize workgroups by galvanizing member leaders and participants. Push agendas on calls and in Collaboration Summit meetings. Recruit the right people and enable them to lead the workgroups. This person will be the LF liaison between us and our members.
- Build community in these workgroups and in the general LF online presence by writing content, recruiting volunteers to write content and managing new web properties and strategies. This is a chance for you to be creative and be a thought leader.
- Be a technical source for Linux issues for LF management and prepare them for press and speaking opps in specific areas of expertise.
- Handle details around LF workgroups and advisory councils. You will own these groups so you are responsible for everytihng, down to the details. If you’re used to a large staff to handle details for you, this is probably not the right job for you.
- Assist LF staff with conference and events. This could be writing and leading workgroup sessions, recruiting the right people, speaking at conferences, etc.
- Assist engineering in LSB content and community. (Moderating forums, recruiting participants, etc. for a new Web property.)
- You must understand the Linux ecosystem, especially server-related Linux issues, and be technical. (You don’t have to be a kernel programmer but you need to know who they are individually. If someone says GCC you know what that means.)
- You need to be able to express yourself in writing but just as importantly you need to be able to organize and run a meeting. You need to be able to do details and get things done but also have a big picture view.
- You have to be politically savvy and understand motivations and sensitivities of divergent people and groups.
- Web programming or at least a high proficiency in new web strategies is preferred.
If you’d like to apply for this job, please send your resume to angela (at) linux-foundation (dot) org.
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Microsoft gets slapped by the EU for another record fine – will it really help??
Perhaps Microsoft’s recent, lame “open” announcements were prompted by an impending $1.3B fine… does anyone really think this will stop Microsoft? It’s just a tax and you know who will bear the cost (yes, those using Microsoft’s products, or Microsoft’s investors). I think a better solution would have been to look at what market structure would be necessary to facilitate the behavior that is needed. I think when it comes to Microsoft and its constant run-ins with antitrust regulators it is evident fines are not working. The industry needs regulators to step in with an effective structural change.
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/02/27/ap4702025.html?partner=alerts
BRUSSELS, Belgium – The European Union fined Microsoft Corp. a record euro899 million (US$1.3 billion) on Wednesday for charging rivals too much for software information.
EU regulators said the company charged “unreasonable prices” until last October to software developers who wanted to make products compatible with the Windows desktop operating system.
Monday, February 4th, 2008
IBM’s Bob Sutor responds to Microsoft’s… nonsense and whining
Saw this article over at Ars today:
We spoke to Bob Sutor, vice president of standards and open source for IBM, who responded to Microsoft’s recent claims regarding IBM’s involvement in the OOXML dispute. “IBM believes that there is a revolution occurring in the IT industry, and that smart people around the world are demanding truly open standards developed in a collaborative, democratic way for the betterment of all,” Sutor told Ars. “If ‘business as usual’ means trying to foist a rushed, technically inferior and product-specific piece of work like OOXML on the IT industry, we’re proud to stand with the tens of countries and thousands of individuals who are willing to fight against such bad behavior.
Monday, January 21st, 2008
Ubuntu and IBM bring enterprise collaboration to a user friendly Linux desktop
I read this news release with great excitement and will take a shameless opportunity to plug what I think is a fantastic partnership. The news? IBM’s Lotus group has announced support of its Open Collaboration Client Solution (OCCS) for Ubuntu Linux. OCCS is a layer of rich client communications apps including IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 (Calendaring, Email), Sametime 7.x (Instant Messaging), and Symphony (OpenOffice in an Eclipse RCP form). I’ve switched to Ubuntu for my primary system at home for well over a year now and while I took a very short break to dabble in Fedora 8, I’m back on Ubuntu again. I’ve been using a RHEL5 base at work for over a year as well but now that we have Ubuntu support coming, I’ll probably switch to Ubuntu once the OCCS solution is released (yes, I work in a strategy group in IBM and I don’t use Windows or MS Office – and most people can’t tell). The thing about working in IBM is that everyone uses Notes, Sametime, and ODF is even becoming more popular so there’s very little that prevents anyone from using Linux (or a Mac). Heck, many users can probably get away with an iPhone.
IBM also expanded the OCCS platform support with Red Hat EL Desktop and announced more partners around OCCS on Novell’s Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED).
What makes all this even better? Enterprise applications delivered in a rich client environment. Take for instance SAP, who today announced a joint product set with IBM that will be delivered through Lotus Notes (which we now know runs well on Linux)
The product, codenamed Atlantic, will allow users to access SAP’s Business Suite applications for workflows, reporting and analytics through IBM’s Lotus Notes desktop software.
So the ecosystem and vision is starting to come together. It’s early, but I would be remiss if I didn’t mention again that 2008 will be the year of the enterprise Linux client ;-) How many users will we be saying this for? :-) (Note, I didn’t say ‘desktop’ specifically, and I said ‘enterprise’). As we’ve been saying all along, there are certain segments of users that can easily do their work on a Linux client (many won’t even know it’s not Windows). Those companies who take advantage of user segmentation have a lot to benefit from both on pure cost alone, but also in the next round of negotiations on your non-Linux client systems ;-)
Monday, January 14th, 2008
Microsoft under EU investigation (again) for browser bundling
Could Britney Spears have relevance to Microsoft (e.g. “Oops I did it again”)? Reuters is covering a new investigation by the EC into Microsoft’s possible antitrust violations, this time for Internet Explorer.
The European Commission opened a new antitrust probe against Microsoft on Monday into whether it unfairly tied its Web browser to the Windows operating system and made it harder for rival software to work with Windows.
Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Ubuntu Live 2008 – Call for Papers
Mark Shuttleworth posted on his blog today a call for papers for Ubuntu Live 2008 in Portland (Oregon). You can see his blog here: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/137
O’Reilly, the organisers of Ubuntu Live, have just issued the call for papers for Ubuntu Live 2008. The theme of the event is “Taking it Further”, which I think is perfect for Ubuntu this year!
Friday, January 4th, 2008
AP Interview with Red Hat’s new CEO, Jim Whitehurst
I like Jim already after reading this interview.
“We are working to democratize information,” Whitehurst said. “A lot of people don’t see the importance of that. But, ultimately, it is about information freedom and making sure information’s accessible.
“If we don’t fight those battles now, our entrenched competitors will lock up file formats, force you to use their software or force royalties,” he added. “Then the information stored in those formats will no longer be free.”
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Linux continues to evolve adding specialized purpose function into a general purpose OS
The great thing about Linux is that it’s a general purpose operating system that can be molded into a platform for anything from mobile devices, to printer embedded OS functionality to supercomputer and mainframes. Linux can also bring in certain features that may not apply to everyone but which cater to users with very specific needs. Like it or not as a mainstream security feature, SELinux has come quite far as evidenced in the latest RHEL5. SELinux also caters well to specific users with high security requirements. For those users, SELinux is probably easier to use than their other options and it is tailored to the needs they have.
Linux is now heading into another direction focusing on the specific needs for users with very low latency and determinism requirements. This can apply to anything from weapons systems for military applications, to Wall Street customers sell side trading systems, and even to SMS messaging in the telecommunications industry.
And so we’re beginning to see great strides shaping Linux for the needs of these user segments that demand low latency and determinism in both their operating system and applications. Platforms like IBM’s WebSphere Real Time and even Sun’s real time Java are currently running (or in Sun’s case, being ported to run) on a real time Linux operating system. With a real time Java machine, suddenly Java applications can inherit the benefits of a real time system. And so antiquated real time languages are suddenly… antiquated officially because a real time Linux and Java solution can marry a general purpose OS with a general purpose programming language for the best of both worlds. IBM has made great gains in the technology adding both a real time Java garbage collector and Ahead-of-Time compilation to make this a great solution compelling enough for the US Navy’s mission critical weapons systems.
Recently Novell has announced their SLERT product updates with great monitoring tools from Concurrent bundled in (and tighter integration of the kernel community real time patches – now a community standard?). I expect we’ll also soon hear more about Red Hat’s real time plans as well so stay tuned…
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Has Desktop Linux reached “The Tipping Point”?
You have to wonder when Malcolm would agree looking back 10 years from now, Linux hit the “Tipping Point”… when I see ordinary Windows users switching (and liking it), I can’t help but think, it might be tipping right now…
Well the Linux desktop is certainly here and I can prove it because as of today I’m officially an Ubuntu user and even though things aren’t perfect, I feel like I’ve finally escaped from jail.
Monday, October 22nd, 2007
Using Linux KVM Virtualization on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10
I _really_ like KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machines) . It’s extremely simple to setup and use and lacks the intrusiveness of hypervisors like VMware and Xen. In this post, I’ll show you how to setup KVM on the latest Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon”. Ubuntu already has a decent howto available here that walks you through the steps, but I’ll go a few steps further in places (and shorter in others) using the new Gutsy Gibbon release.
First off, you need a system with full virtualization enabled processors, or virtualization assist. AMD calls this Secure Virtual Machine (or SVM) and Intel calls its technology VT-x (or vmx). You can read more about this at LWN if you would like here.
I’m using Ubuntu 7.10 64-bit on an AMD64x2 dual core processor that has the AMD hardware virtualization assist extensions . To find out if your processor supports this, use the following command:
# egrep ‘(vmx|svm)’ /proc/cpuinfo
Example output from an AMD system (hence, “svm” is highlighted). If this were Intel based, you would see “vmx”:
First, start by installing KVM and QEMU using apt-get or Synaptic Package Manager
# apt-get install qemu kvm
# modprobe kvm-amd (or kvm-intel for intel procs)
Note that if you do not modprobe the KVM module, you will get an error such as the following when you try to start KVM in the steps that follow:
Installing an Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon server guest OS
# qemu-img create gutsy-server.img -f qcow2 6G
This creates a file for your virtual machine image in your current directory. QEMU and KVM actually support many other useful file formats as described in the qemu documentation. One of the more userful options here is to use “-f vmdk” as the vm image that you create and setup will be compatible with VMware 3 and 4. Obviously the ability to export and use the same image with VMware can be valuable.
One question you may have at this point is “why use KVM; doesn’t QEMU do this too?”. The simple answer is that KVM uses processor extensions for virtualization whereas QEMU uses processor emulation. QEMU emulates the processor and system devices. KVM does not need to emulate the processor but relies on QEMU to do its device emulation. The interesting use case for QEMU is that it can also emulate other processor architectures such as SPARC, PowerPC and MIPS (see this website) on an x86 host. While the difference may seem subtle, there are definite performance advantages to KVM (and once can assume stability advantages). Someday, we may see them merge… but I doubt it. You can find a great overview of the differences between various Linux virtualization technologies at developerWorks here.
Back to KVM, the command above creates an image file that grows as the VM requires. With an inflatable disk image, your VM grows with the space used by the virtual machine up to 6GB (versus pre-allocating a full 6GB disk image). Now, let’s startup an Ubuntu install for our new virtual machine.
# kvm -m 750 -cdrom /home/user/ubuntu-7.10-server-amd64.iso -boot d ubuntu-server.img
For new users, the /home/user/ should just be the path to where you stored your Ubuntu iso download. If you execute this command and only see a black window pop up that looks empty, you can hit enter to start the install and the screen will come back. Or, you can add “-std-vga” to the kvm command above to help with the framebuffer Ubuntu startup.
This will start up KVM and boot the virtual machine off of the Ubuntu iso image. You can also boot from a CD/DVD drive by using this command:
# kvm -m 750 -cdrom /dev/cdrom -boot d ubuntu-server.img
Once you execute the command, QEMU will startup and you will see the normal boot options as if you started your computer with an Ubuntu install disk in the drive. I had to use -no-acpi with Ubuntu 7.10 or else I would get kernel panics once it went to install. The title bar should show QEMU/KVM. If you just see QEMU (as in the image below), then KVM failed (you most likely forgot to load the KVM module in the steps above) and you should exit even though it appears to be working. If you see QEMU/KVM, you should now have a working KVM install. Continue with the server install process and configuration as usual.
Once installation is finished, the Ubuntu guest will try to restart. This will fail, and that’s fine. You can close out the QEMU/KVM window, return to the command line, and start up your KVM guest Ubuntu server for the first time. I also tend to give running guests less memory than during the install…
# kvm -no-acpi -m 500 ubuntu-server.img
(note that I installed the text based version of Ubuntu server with no GUI or X windows)
Fedora Core 8 Beta as a KVM Guest
I’ll create an image for Fedora 8 first, using vmdk as the file format to later use this same image with VMware. You can click here for more information on how to use a QEMU created vmdk file in VMware.
# qemu-create fedora8.img -f vmdk 6G
# kvm -no-acpi -m 750 -cdrom /dev/cdrom -boot d fedora8.img
# kvm -no-acpi -m 500 fedora8.img
Windows Server 2008 in KVM with Ubuntu:
See my post here for setting up Windows Server 2008 in KVM
Next up: managing KVM processes, KVM networking, and sharing files between host and guests.
Other Resources to Check Out:
Virtual disk images: http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-doc.html#SEC24
KVM Wiki: http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/Front_Page
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
New Linux ecosystem developments: Barracuda Networks joins OIN, the Linux Foundation and Japanese government join forces
Today I noticed two articles of interesting news over at Ars Technica:
1) Barracuda Networks has signed on as an OIN licensee which is yet another great pickup for the OIN team.
Security software appliance vendor Barracuda Networks is joining the Open Invention Network (OIN) today as a licensee. In exchange for agreeing not to assert any of their own patents against the Linux software ecosystem, Barracuda will gain royalty-free access to the significant collection of patents held by OIN—which includes the Commerce One web services patents.
2) The Japanese government and the Linux Foundation announced they will be collaborating to advance Linux adoption in Japan.
“Our two organizations are leading the adoption and use of Linux and open-source software, and by working together on joint summits, technology developments and legal activities, we can help Japanese companies promote the use of Linux,” said IPA chairman Buheita Fujiwara in a statement. “Japanese open-source software will continue to play a very important role in the worldwide open source revolution.”
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
How the Linux Foundation, users, developers, and member companies collaborate and intersect
Joe Alexander from Bull has a great “interview” up on Bull’s website that talks about how the Linux Foundation, users, developers, and the LF member companies all collaborate and intersect at varying levels. Joe covers hardening Linux for enterprise mission critical but moves to discuss how Linux has “crossed the chasm”. He also describes why and where the new LF “weather forecast” came from and how Linux requires a ‘forecast’ that is a bit different from other “roadmap driven” operating systems.
I found this to be a great viewpoint and even better to see it on Bull’s website giving testament to a foundation that in my opinion is kicking off some great working after the merger.
http://www.bull.com/opensource/enterpriselinux.html
One might wonder how proprietary OS vendors can compete over the long-term with the breath, depth, passion and quality of the Linux development community.
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
John Cherry covers latest announcements around collaboration and office suites
John Cherry summed up the recent “big” announcements around collaboration and offices suites over on his LF blog:
http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/cherry/2007/09/18/piling-on-office-and-collaboration/
Any of these announcements by themselves would be significant, but the combination of these is really sounding the starting pistol for competition in the multi-billion dollar office productivity race. And this time around, it is not a one horse race.
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
IBM breaks open the Office lock on customers, offers a path to and open standard with new, no charge Lotus Symphony
Lots of news since I left for Europe. The trip was amazing (photos and maybe videos coming soon). But since I left, OOXML failed in ISO, the EU rejected Microsoft’s appeal, SCO filed for Chapter 11, and IBM joined OpenOffice.org as a significant contributor (35 developers).
Today, though, IBM also announced Lotus Symphony – a no charge set of office productivity editors (you may be familiar with Microsoft Office’s Excel, Powerpoint, and Word – they’re very similar). IBM’s Symphony suite, like OpenOffice allows users to also start transitioning to OpenDocument Format (ODF). The new suite is NO CHARGE (yes, the nice way of saying “free” without implying “cheap” or “dumbed down”). These are the real deal, the same editors that come bundled with Lotus Notes 8 and the work on Linux or Windows (although I prefer Linux). The URL to download them is here:
www.ibm.com/software/lotus/symphony
The interesting thing now is that Microsoft Office costs what… $X00 and you can get the IBM Symphony suite for $0. Symphony handles Word, ODF, and many other formats (including PDF output)… Microsoft Office… well… not so much. Symphony is even cheaper than StarOffice (unless you go through GooglePack)
Take Symphony for a test run – there’s no charge – and keep an eye out because I can absolutely feel OpenOffice and by proxy Symphony are going to see great advances in their evolution going forward.
A nice quote from Steve Mills with a relation back to Linux:
“IBM is committed to opening office desktop productivity applications just as we helped open enterprise computing with Linux,” said Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive, IBM Software Group. “The lifeblood of any organization is contained in thousands of documents. With the Open Document Format, businesses can unlock their information, making it universally accessible on any platform and on the Web in highly flexible ways.”
Thursday, August 30th, 2007
PC World exposes Microsoft’s OOXML Sweden scam; Gerrit says “Microsoft has many tricks…”
I saw this PC World article through Bob Sutor’s blog. Interesting tactics – not sure how this gives ISO any credibility. I think it’s time for a re-vote… not only did Microsoft pay for votes, they also suggested the partners try and make it look legit by attending a couple meetings after as well… this is an international standards voting process by technical experts??
In an information e-mail that, according to Microsoft, was sent to “a few” partner companies, the software giant stated that its partners were expected to register to vote with SIS and “take part in the meeting on Aug. 27 to vote yes for Office Open XML.”
Microsoft’s partners were also requested to attend more meetings after the vote in order to prove “their sincere participation”.
Gerrit has an interesting post bringing together a number of really good links over at his blog.
It is interesting to watch as Microsoft tries different strategies in dealing with the open source community, open standards and interoperability. This interesting ballot box management trick with OOXML is clever (oh, and if it is so good, repeat it, over and over again). Basically, manage the voting populace to ensure that only your voters turn out for a vote.
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Slashdot: “Microsoft Bought Sweden’s ISO Vote on OOXML?”
It’s not often that I point to /. as a source, but this seems warranted (see post below).
How long will the world allow this to happen? At what expense does this come for the integrity and viability of international standards organizations – especially the one named ISO?
What if Vanderbilt could have standardized railroad tracks according to his own, proprietary, patented rail size and shape – would the US have prospered as it did? Most people don’t really care about standards – it’s often like the legal world where people say, “Just let the experts fight it out and come back to me with your answer.” But that’s not what’s happening here – in this case it’s not experts debating the merits of a standard – you’re looking at one company trying to lock the world into a lifetime payment plan under the guise of an open standard.
It’s time to get loud.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/28/1237255
The vote on OOXML looked fairly secured. Most in the Working Group in Sweden was against the vote to approve OOXML. The day of the vote, though, more companies showed up at the door. Some 20 new companies — each one payed about $2500 to be allowed to vote — and vote they did … for Microsoft. Most of the new companies were partners from Microsoft who suddenly out of the blue joined the Working Group, payed membership fees and voted yes for approval. From the OS2World story: ‘The final result was 25 Yes, 6 No and 3 Abs and this would from the start be a done deal of saying No! Jonas Bosson who participated in today’s meeting on behalf on FFII said that he left the meeting in protest and so did also IBM’s Swedish local representative Johan Westman.’”
Friday, August 24th, 2007
Forbes: “India Won’t Endorse Microsoft’s Office Standard”
India has become the latest country to reject Microsoft’s global bid to provide an alternative standard for electronic office documents. India will now vote against Microsoft’s proposal at the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in Geneva, joining countries like China and Canada.
After a meeting of the Bureau of Indian Standards in New Delhi Thursday, its technical committee chairperson, Nita Verma, told the media: “We unanimously agree on the disapproval of OOXML [Open Office Extensible Mark Up Language] with comments. The same will be submitted to ISO.”
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
Thank you for your patronage Microsoft; I’m using Windows Vista (for now).
I rarely check my web stats, but reading Stephen’s post on network services for whatever reason prompted me to look at my website stats. So one view I can see is the most frequently visited IP blocks that visit my site. This is interesting b/c if you resolve the most common IP addresses to the ARIN owner, you can see where some of the most frequent visitors might be located.
Number 3 on my list of most frequent visits for the last 12 months was 65.54.188.17 — which resolves to…. Microsoft, Redmond…
So this could mean a few things… (rampant speculation below):
- Microsoft is interested in what I say and is taking Linux to heart – perhaps doing massive Stage 1 Gentoo installs (shame that’s pretty much gone as a practice…),
- Perhaps Microsoft employees are interested in subjects like what it takes to have a truly successful open source community of developers, open standards, investors, and multiple vendor collaboration…
- Microsoft wants to gather competitive intelligence based on my work at IBM based on what I write here (hmm… good luck)
- Microsoft employees are very interested in comparing the Canon Rebet XT and XTi (search stats show it’s a popular search query)
- I need to write more about Vista, Windows Server, and .NET and cater to my audience.
- Microsoft is secretly trying to drop signals that I should join their company and figure out a better open source strategy for them than threatening IP suits against customers…
Ultimately, I think this stat tells me #5 ;-)
So the interesting piece here is I just started using Windows Vista on a new system this weekend (promptly added Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon as a dual boot). When it comes to operating systems and software, I’ll try ANYTHING and so it was time to refresh my Windows desktop knowledge.
I’ll post more as I have time, but I’ll kick all of this off with what I like about Windows Vista:
- It’s a step up from Windows Me (ok, but really, XP was so much faster… what happened)
- Vista implements UAC (FINALLY), although … poorly… but it’s there at least.
- Vista went a whole 4 days before being infected with the first virus (ok, I trusted public IP port 80 traffic to it… could say it’s my fault, but no, doubt it)
- IE7… nicely integrated, finally has tabs, slimmer interface
- DVD support out of the box??? Maybe one of the other software vendors slipped in the DVD codecs, but I think they actually came with Vista this time – good move.
- Microsoft Outlook Express is now renamed Windows Mail and so far seems better than Outlook Express if you ask me. Simple email app – not much to screw up. I switched to Outlook 2003 already.
- Windows Sidebar – widgets everywhere – ok, maybe just one or two, but the eye candy is appealing. The performance bar widget I downloaded revealed that approx 33% of my 2GB of RAM is used up in an idle state – yes, nearly 666MB is devoted to just having Vista sit there doing nothing…. dare I start an application? and aren’t the triple 6′s an odd omen??
- Windows gets an A for the visual appeal of the artwork and color schemes. I really do like the visual experience.
- Drivers – I thought this would be a horrible issue based on what I read, but my system (albeit a new system) didn’t really have any driver issues except for 1 (USB Audio… still can’t get that to work….). I have a ton of peripherals (printers, scanners, external burners, HD camcorder, cameras, etc) and aside from my speakers everything else worked (after downloading the appropriate drivers of course). Why Microsoft cannot find a better way (ahem, ala RHN) to distribute updates and drivers is beyond me….
That’s it for now. Of course I have the laundry list of “I wish it did X” issues, and so far I’m a bit disappointed, but no operating system lacks some bright spots. The Windows Vista install process was actually quite appealing – loved the changes (especially the hard drive configuration).
Anyway – to those Microsoft employees reading this, start posting comments – could use some increased interaction. I’m actually trying out Vista and taking it for a spin – I didn’t realize PowerShell did not ship with it, but I intend to check it out. Not sure what else is new, but I’ll peruse the usual “here’s what’s new in Vista” tech sites when I have time. If you have anything cool to point out I’d like to hear it.
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
Scoble Interviews IBM’s top IP lawyer, Dave Kappos – a “must watch” if you’re into open standards, open source and IP
I’m admittedly not much of a “Scoble-fan”, but this is an outstanding interview with IBM’s Dave Kappos (IBM’s top intellectual property lawyer). About 12 minutes in is a discussion on the stresses collaborative innovation introduces on the 20th century IP model we have today. The entire video is absolutely worth watching or listening to. I will say that Dave is one of the great lawyers in the legal community that really *get it* when it comes to open standards, open source software and IP.
http://www.podtech.net/home/3844/a-hour-with-ibms-top-intellectual-property-lawyer
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
Markus Rex Joins the Linux Foundation as “on loan” CTO
This was actually news on Tuesday, but still good to communicate. Markus Rex is joining the Linux Foundation to take over as CTO driving standards and technical initiatives. It’s good to see this role being filled as Markus comes on loan from Novell with an extensive Linux background at Suse.
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