So that’s not the one that makes the customers happy ,
Then there is the other side of the coin, the people that create open source Authors realize the dual licensing model comes hunting back at you after a merger or a hostile acquisition, yes they still have the source code to build on but they can’t sell commercial licenses to their customers anymore they way they used to.
I mean, we are heading towards 2010 , some of us have been using Open Source for decades, the Open Source vs Free Software discussion was like last millenium, and we’ve been doing open source consultancy for over a decade, yet today companies still think their customers are stupid,
Fancy this story on ZDNet today .. there’s actually companies out there claiming that “Bind” because of it’s FreeWare nature , yes that’s right you’ve Read FREEWARE , (hadn’t heard that word for over 5 years..) , is less secure than their proprietary offering in the Cloud. So the very nature of their Secure product is offering Security by Obscurity in an insecure environment .
About 2.5 months ago while I was on a highspeed Belnet connection at UZA after Amber got born I ran in to some annoyancies with my fresh Fedora 11 and multiple batteries, upon replacing the CD drive with an empty battery (to be charged) while I was on AC power the machine shut down.
I filed a bug , while going trough my post holliday inbox backlog I noticed it got fixed . Thnx Richard !
Somehow this year my schedule really isn’t going to get filled with conferences,unlike my 13 speaking engagements last year this year I decided to go for a lot less :)
Froscon together with OpenSQLCamp is convienently scheduled during an already long planned family weekend .. but I really hope to go there nex year
I’ve been wanting to go south for conferences for ages, Spain, France, Portugal, Italy , Greece are all places I’d love to go and see how the different Open Sourcen conferences play out there. This summer there actually were some different conferences tha took place in Spain, Gran Canaria etc . but I coouldn’t make it there for the obvious reasons..
Dear MySQL and Drupal , Plone and other Open Source folks, you might want to be interrested in giving a talk at T-Dose 2009 ,
Jean Paul pinged me with the following mail :
Maybe it escaped your attention that the Call For Papers for T-DOSE 2009 is already out. It has been announced on 12th of June 2009. Below you will find the original announcement.
Call for Papers and Projects
Fri, 06/12/2009 - 13:57 — jpsaman
You must have noticed the fuzz around CentOS, the open Letter , and luckily Lance showing up again ..
I’ve been a long time CentOS user , so this kind of events are pretty close to my heart, I never really worried about the future of the project , the CentOS community is was standing behind their message as one group. If Lance wouldn’t have shown up again quoting Arrfab:
“The worst would be to switch to another domain name .. but you already know that everything is a fscking DNS problem”
It seems like the the European Commision , more specifically the Directorate General for Competition , really is interested in our input regarding the matter, I mailed them and also got a questionnaire to fill in.
So if you have something interesting to tell them don’t hesitate to contact them too.
My yesterday post about RiverMuse only being available on Fedora Core 9 wasn’t even cold yet and today Rivermuse already announced the availability of their RHEL5 binaries.
Probably every day there’s a new Open Source project popping up left or right, sometimes they dissapear quickly , others are here to stay.
Enter Djagios, a Nagios configuration tool written in Django. At this time it’s in development phase but development is going pretty good now, Djagios has been incepted by fellow InuitJochen Maes
It aims at filling the gap between the vi and emacs Nagios guru’s and the manegerial type who just wants to and make Nagios usable for them.
First of all, I don’t come from a Tivoli, OpenView background , I have never touched the commercial network monitoring tools and I`m not a network guy . I’m an infrastructure guy whith a focus on Open Source platforms so I have been using Nagios and more recently Zabbix, Zenoss etc for the better part of the last 2 decades in large to very large environments.
My syslogs go to a central (r)syslog)-ng) server where I frequently abuse grep. So If my experience with RiverMuse is not what it should be , there’s work to be done on both sides ;)