--- title: links for 2007-05-16 date: 2007-05-16T05:29:07Z modified: 2007-05-16T05:29:07Z permalink: "https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/05/15/links-for-2007-05-16/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 1564 categories: - Uncategorized timestamp: 2007-05-16T05:29:07Z tags: - Uncategorized --- - [ESPN.com – Blogs – Peter Gammons Blog](http://insider.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?entryID=2870456&searchName=gammons_peter&campaign=rsssrch&source=peter_gammons) “You have no idea what that October was like,” Roberts has told teammates. “I have not had one day since that game when someone hasn’t come up and thanked me. Not one day.” – i’ll not only thank him, i’ll buy him a beer [Sub req’d] (tags: [DaveRoberts](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/DaveRoberts) [2004](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/2004) [RedSox](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/RedSox) [baseball](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/baseball) [worldseries](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/worldseries)) - [Greg Matter : Weblog](http://blogs.sun.com/Gregp/entry/are_software_patents_useful) couple of folks pointed me to this, and they’re right – it’s a very useful, and very rational, take on patents and other mechanisms like copyright, trade secrets and so forth (tags: [GregPapadopoulos](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/GregPapadopoulos) [copyright](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/copyright) [ip](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ip) [opensource](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/opensource) [patents](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/patents) [software](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/software) [sun](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/sun) [tradesecrets](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/tradesecrets)) - [GrandCentral Blog » Blog Archive » GrandCentral Expansion…EVERYWHERE](http://blog.grandcentral.com/?p=114) weird – why is Maine in with Alaska and Hawaii as states whose area codes aren’t available? could it be because the entire state is still covered by a single area code (i defy you to find that somewhere else these days) (tags: [GrandCentral](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/GrandCentral) [VOIP](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/VOIP) [areacodes](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/areacodes) [Maine](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Maine)) - [rc3.org: Stephen O’Grady on Microsoft’s patent assertions](http://rc3.org/2007/05/stephen_ogrady.php) Rafe agrees (tags: [RedMonk](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/RedMonk) [tecosystems](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/tecosystems) [rafecolburn](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/rafecolburn) [Microsoft](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Microsoft) [patents](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/patents)) - [More links on Microsoft’s FOSS War « Shebanation](http://shebanation.com/2007/05/15/more-links-on-microsofts-foss-war/) “Finally we have Steven O’Grady of Redmonk doing one of his trademark Q&A discussions. Its great stuff, and though he does try to walk a fine to not offend Microsoft (one of his customers)” – interesting, it apparently reads as less harsh than i thought (tags: [redmonk](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/redmonk) [andrewshebanow](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/andrewshebanow) [Microsoft](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Microsoft) [patents](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/patents) [Fortune](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Fortune)) - [Once More unto the Breach: The Microsoft Open Source Patent Gambit](http://stephesblog.blogs.com/my_weblog/2007/05/the_microsoft_o.html) brilliant response from Mr. Walli; would love to see the patent wiki idea take shape – anybody needs help with that, let us know (tags: [stephewalli](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/stephewalli) [Microsoft](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Microsoft) [patents](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/patents) [licensing](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/licensing)) - [The Music of Time: Dynamic Languages in the JVM – Discussion Notes from the CommunityOne RedMonk Unconference](http://the-music-of-time.blogspot.com/2007/05/dynamic-languages-in-jvm-discussion.html) notes from the dynamic language on the JVM session at RedMonkOne – big thanks to Andrew for documenting this (tags: [AndrewLaw](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/AndrewLaw) [JVM](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/JVM) [dynamic](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/dynamic) [languages](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/languages) [CommunityOne](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/CommunityOne) [RedMonkOne](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/RedMonkOne) [JavaOne](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/JavaOne)) - [BBTF’s Bullpen Mechanics Discussion :: Let’s talk about Arm Slot–A video review of Jonathan Papelbon](http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/mechanics/discussion/lets_talk_about_arm_slot_a_video_review_of_jonathan_papelbon/) much as i like Papelbon in the bullpen, the prospect of him getting hurt is terrifying (tags: [JonathanPapelbon](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/JonathanPapelbon) [RedSox](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/RedSox) [Boston](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Boston) [baseball](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/baseball) [closer](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/closer) [injury](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/injury) [WillCarroll](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/WillCarroll)) - [Outrageous \[dive into mark\]](http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/05/15/outrageous) not a surprise – Mark’s not a fan of patents; unfortunately, in today’s system, vendors are more or less obligated to pursue them (tags: [MarkPilgrim](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/MarkPilgrim) [patents](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/patents) [IBM](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/IBM)) - [Some Community Tips for 2007 | fortuitous](http://fortuito.us/2007/05/some_community_tips_for_2007) very solid list of community building tips (tags: [community](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/community) [building](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/building) [tips](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/tips) [howto](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/howto)) - [Charles Lamb’s Blog](http://blogs.oracle.com/charleslamb/2007/05/08#a65) “JavaFX Script opens the possibility of using JE in an embedded environment and so I thought it would be interesting to verify that it all works ok.” – Mike’s right, this is pretty cool (tags: [BerkeleyDB](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/BerkeleyDB) [JE](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/JE) [via:Mike](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:Mike) [Oracle](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Oracle) [JavaFX](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/JavaFX)) - [Crushed by the Wheels of Industry | Tech News on ZDNet](http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6183476.html) half a dozen folks pointed me over here, and honestly, i can see why – cut and paste don’t work? seriously? (tags: [JeremyAllison](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/JeremyAllison) [ODF](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ODF) [OOXML](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/OOXML) [Office](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Office) [OO.o](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/OO.o)) - [O’Reilly Radar > “The ‘we win by killing’ days are passing”](http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/05/the_we_win_by_k.html) “Pure open source software businesses are orders of magnitude less profitable than their closed source brethren even as they close in on them in terms of the number of customers.” – i know many people will disagree, but i just can’t see margins holding up (tags: [opensource](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/opensource) [profitability](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/profitability) [margin](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/margin) [economics](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/economics) [TimO’Reilly](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/TimO'Reilly)) - [robilad: Power to the people](http://robilad.livejournal.com/12420.html) Dalibor’s summary of JavaOne – was *excellent* to meet him, just sorry i didn’t get to hang with mjw as well (tags: [DaliborTopic](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/DaliborTopic) [JavaOne](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/JavaOne) [OpenJDK](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/OpenJDK) [Microsoft](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Microsoft) [patents](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/patents)) - [Christopher Blizzard » Blog Archive » summary from the red hat summit](http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=289) lots of interesting news from the Red Hat Summit, it would appear (tags: [ChristopherBlizzard](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ChristopherBlizzard) [desktop](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/desktop) [RedHat](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/RedHat) [Summit](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Summit) [RHX](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/RHX) [BRIC](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/BRIC)) - [First Steps to Scala](http://www.artima.com/scalazine/articles/steps.html) had a presentation on this at RedMonkOne – will have to track it with respect to adoption (tags: [RedMonkOne](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/RedMonkOne) [Scala](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Scala) [LIFT](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/LIFT) [framework](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/framework) [scalability](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/scalability)) - [Google Operating System: Windows Live Folders, Online Storage Service](http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/05/windows-live-folders-online-storage.html) this would be interesting (tags: [Windows](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Windows) [Live](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Live) [Folders](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Folders) [online](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/online) [storage](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/storage) [SaaS](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/SaaS) [Sharepoint](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Sharepoint)) - [Zimbra + RHX = Innovative & Yet Simple Messaging!](http://www.zimbra.com/blog/archives/2007/05/zimbra_rhx_innovative_yet_simple_messaging.html) Zimbra’s a fan of the Exchange, it would seem (tags: [Zimbra](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Zimbra) [RHX](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/RHX) [exchange](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/exchange) [application](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/application) [delivery](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/delivery) [RedHat](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/RedHat)) - [What’s New in Nitobi Complete UI for Java](http://www.nitobi.com/products/completeui/java/) some new cool UI bits from the Nitobi gang (tags: [ajax](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/ajax) [component](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/component) [hibernate](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/hibernate) [java](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/java) [jsp](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/jsp) [spring](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/spring) [Nitobi](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/Nitobi) [via:Andre](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/via:Andre)) - [Michael Dolan Dot Com » Microsoft falls back on what it knows best: shipping an incomplete product](http://www.michaeldolan.com/812) ” ‘Shipping is a feature too’ – I wonder if Stephen will add that to his list of ‘feature’ posts.” – Alex beat me to it 😉 (tags: [shipping](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/shipping) [isafeature](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/isafeature) [AlexKing](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/AlexKing) [michaeldolan](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/michaeldolan)) - [Jonathan Schwartz’s Weblog : Weblog](http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/what_we_did) here’s hoping his advice is heeded (tags: [JonathanSchwartz](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/JonathanSchwartz) [litigation](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/litigation) [patents](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/patents) [opensource](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/opensource)) - [Comparing notes on speaker preparation « Jon Udell](http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/05/15/comparing-notes-on-speaker-preparation/) interesting. i might have to try this – i’m more a Zawodny style presenter at this point (tags: [JonUdell](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/JonUdell) [presentation](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/presentation) [howto](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/howto) [speaker](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/speaker) [preparation](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/preparation) [advice](http://del.icio.us/sogrady/advice))