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hugely flattering to be on Luis’ list – particularly considering the other folks on here; at the risk of playing the mutual admiration society card let me just say that i expect Luis to be one of the best legal minds in the open source space shortly
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“Boston was one of 10 cities around the nation where the guerilla ads appeared, but nowhere else did they cause security concerns and set a city on edge.” – really don’t get what happened here, how the city overreacted so badly
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To advertise…”Aqua Teen Hunger Force,” the network put up 38 blinking signs (kind of like Lite Brites)…The Boston police decided — with absolutely no supporting evidence — that these were bombs and shut down parts of the city. – Schneier’s right
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nice! can’t believe i don’t have one of these yet: note to self, order schwag
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“I think there’s things that you write that are absolutely and totally unequivocally uncalled for. I think you take personal vendettas to the paper.” – amen. precisely why i never read Shaughnessy anymore
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very interesting discussion of the Hype Machine and Elbo.ws from the perspective of a (now defunct) music blog
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why we don’t do commissioned work, in a nutshell
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Mike’s thoughts on how open source relates to commercial interests – as always, he’s worth a read.
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if, at the end of my career, the only thing i’ve contributed to blogging is the “I Loathe *” meme, i’ll consider that well worth the effort
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“Piracy helped the young generation discover computers. It set off the development of the IT industry in Romania,” Basescu said during a joint news conference with Gates. – this is pretty damn funny
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i’m just dorky enough to think that this is hilarious
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buy the Boston Mooninites; if you’ve never seen it, BTW, one of the Mooninites sounds just like Will Ferrell – so much so that i had to look it up (it’s not him)
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a lot of obvious turn-off-unneeded-applications type advice, but some interesting metrics on the respective memory footprints for GNOME, KDE, and XFCE – i may yet run Xubuntu on my old Dell
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“Amazon does need to get better about communicating with their customers. They need to have a page which shows the health of their systems, and pro-active notification of major issues, a 24/7 contact method, etc.” – all services need this
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“Upgrade a Linux machine? Not so easy for the average person.” – couldn’t disagree more; if you can click “ok” you can upgrade Ubuntu, and more importantly, all the applications in the Ubuntu repository
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You guys get on the list because you don’t just talk the talk of transparency and openness (easy, lots of people do it); you’re walking the walk (hard, no other analyst firm does it that I know of). As a result, you understand openness on a level that no other analyst firm can match. That gets you credibility, and that gets you on my list.
As a bonus, your transparency lends not only credibility, but also influence- there may be better analysts out there, but if there are, no one in the broader open source community is reading them because they are hiding their analysis behind the paywall. If no one else shows up to the fight, you guys win by default
Now, all that said, if you want to point me to other analysts who are practicing and internalizing transparency, and doing it better than you are, I’ll be happy to leave you off the next list
[As far as me personally… wait for a couple weeks, I hope to be blogging a lot of Serious Stuff through the end of February. By that point I’ll have made enough of an ass of myself that I’m sure no one will touch me with a ten foot pole
hey, whatever the reason, we’re certainly not complaining
but in all seriousness, the acknowledgment was appreciated. we do our best to give back to communities, and if we can help folks like you even superficially we’ll count that as a win.
absolutely agree on the subject of influence and authority; if i was working for a firm that made me hide behind a pay-wall i’d be chafing at the bit.
look forward to the upcoming Serious Stuff. coming from you, that means quite a bit.
Upgrading Windows (or less so, Mac)? Impossible, because they don’t have package managers that take care of every single application you install.
Donnie: exactly right; i don’t know why this is so hard for non-Linux users to grasp.
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