{"id":1576,"date":"2007-05-23T22:28:53","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T05:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2007\/05\/23\/links-for-2007-05-24\/"},"modified":"2007-05-23T22:28:53","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T05:28:53","slug":"links-for-2007-05-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2007\/05\/23\/links-for-2007-05-24\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2007-05-24"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markshuttleworth.com\/archives\/118\">Mark Shuttleworth \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb Microsoft is not the real threat<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Microsoft already spends a huge amount of money on patent settlements&#8230;That number will creep upwards until it\u2019s abundantly clear to them that they would be better off if software patents were history.&#8221; &#8211; a point i tried to make at NXT<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/NXT\">NXT<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/patents\">patents<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/MarkShuttleworth\">MarkShuttleworth<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/software\">software<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.subhashnair.com\/2007\/05\/microsoft-and-opensource.html\">Product Development &amp; Outsourcing: Microsoft and Opensource<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;I found Redmonk Stephen O&#8217;Grady&#8217;s presentation most impressive of the day&#8217;s. His rationale for OS ISVs was that the choice of Microsoft as a platform is simple &#8211; as an OS ISV with thin margins volume is what is most crucial&#8230;&#8221; &#8211; thx, Subhash<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/Subhash\">Subhash<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/RedMonk\">RedMonk<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/NXT\">NXT<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/presentation\">presentation<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/volume\">volume<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/platform\">platform<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/Windows\">Windows<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/softwareblogs.intel.com\/2007\/05\/15\/why-linux-people-lust-after-dtrace\/\">Intel\u00ae Software Network Blogs \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb Why Linux people lust after DTrace<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">some thoughts from an Intel dev on the value of the observability DTrace provides<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/DTrace\">DTrace<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/Solaris\">Solaris<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/Linux\">Linux<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/observability\">observability<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/Intel\">Intel<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sethmnookin.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/17\/mathematical-proof-of-what-weve-always-known-the-sox-really-are-the-nicer-team\/\">The Feeding the Monster Blog \u2014 In which the author discusses Boston, the Red Sox, the media, and very occasionally popular music. \u00bb Mathematical proof of what we\u2019ve always known: the Sox really are the nicer team<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">another reason to root for the Good Guys (as if you needed more)<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/Boston\">Boston<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/RedSox\">RedSox<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/baseball\">baseball<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/nicest\">nicest<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/players\">players<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/blog\/main\/archives\/2007\/05\/why_is_everyone.html\">Why Is Everyone So Afraid Of IT Analysts? &#8211; Tech Careers &#8211; InformationWeek<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;What&#8217;s everyone so afraid of?&#8221; &#8211; unquestionably (b), in my opinion; talking to vendors as we do, there&#8217;s no doubt that some of the big folks have too much sway<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/industryanalysts\">industryanalysts<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/vendors\">vendors<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/analysts\">analysts<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/InformationWeek\">InformationWeek<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20070522-microsoft-funds-questionable-study-attacking-gpl-3-draft-process.html\">Microsoft funds questionable study attacking GPL 3 draft process<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">what is the purpose of this? i know MSFT has no love for the GPLv3, but funding this kind of study? it&#8217;s ridiculous. MSFT might want to weigh the expected benefit versus the expected cost<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/GPLv3\">GPLv3<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/commissioned\">commissioned<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/research\">research<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/opensource\">opensource<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/FSF\">FSF<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/port25.technet.com\/archive\/2007\/05\/15\/clarifications.aspx\">Port 25 : Clarifications<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">a clarification from Bill on some of the remarks to the Bankok Post; still think they should not have come up, but nonetheless a useful follow up<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/Linux\">Linux<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/opensource\">opensource<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/Port25\">Port25<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/sharedsource\">sharedsource<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/BillHilf\">BillHilf<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.consortiuminfo.org\/standardsblog\/article.php?story=20070516070856610\">ConsortiumInfo.org &#8211; Through the Patent Looking Glass with Microsoft&#8217;s Brad Smith<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">insightful (as usual) commentary from Andy on Microsoft&#8217;s recent patent FUD<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/patents\">patents<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/blog\">blog<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/business\">business<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/IP\">IP<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/law\">law<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/legal\">legal<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/AndyUpdegrove\">AndyUpdegrove<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/opensource\">opensource<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kitchensoap.com\/2007\/04\/27\/slides-from-capacity-planning-for-lamp-talk-at-mysql-conf-2007\/\">Kitchen Soap \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb Slides from \u2018Capacity Planning for LAMP\u2019 talk at MySQL Conf 2007<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">very belated, but this session at MySQL&#8217;s conference was so full i couldn&#8217;t even sit down in the aisle<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/MySQL\">MySQL<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/conference\">conference<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/Flickr\">Flickr<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/PHP\">PHP<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/LAMP\">LAMP<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/capacityplanning\">capacityplanning<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/azure.humbug.org.au\/~aj\/blog\/2007\/05\/03#2007-05-03-distributions-2.0\">indolence log<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Jeff had a bunch more ideas in that vein \u2013 like not bothering with a central archive, but having users collect the packages they\u2019re interested in from upstream sites all over the place,&#8221; &#8211; jdub and i need to chat more on this subject, methinks<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/JeffWaugh\">JeffWaugh<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/Debian\">Debian<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/distributions\">distributions<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/Linux\">Linux<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/upstream\">upstream<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/repositories\">repositories<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/package\">package<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/management\">management<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.leetsoft.com\/2007\/5\/22\/the-secret-to-memcached\">Too-biased &#8211; Tobias Luetke&#8217;s thoughts<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">specifics on memcached, including some really amazing anecdotal evidence; Facebook&#8217;s using memcached on 3TBs of RAM? really?<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/memcached\">memcached<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/Facebook\">Facebook<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/caching\">caching<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/performance\">performance<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/scalability\">scalability<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/LAMP\">LAMP<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.com\/webmink\/entry\/patent_reform\">Simon Phipps, SunMink: Seven Patent Reforms While We Wait For Nirvana<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">absolutely *phenomenal* patent post from Simon &#8211; absolutely outstanding; even the noted Sun critic Michael Dolan likes it<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/SimonPhipps\">SimonPhipps<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/patents\">patents<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/software\">software<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.holovaty.com\/blog\/archive\/2007\/05\/23\/1145\">Knight Foundation grant | Holovaty.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">first things first: huge congrats and good luck to Adrian (can we call him the Knight Rider now? ;), a developer that i have the utmost respect, along with his Post ex-colleagues. but in the meantime, EveryBlock is now officially on my radar<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/AdrianHolovaty\">AdrianHolovaty<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/django\">django<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/journalism\">journalism<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/local\">local<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/media\">media<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/news\">news<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/startup\">startup<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/KnightFoundation\">KnightFoundation<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/sogrady\/EveryBlock\">EveryBlock<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Shuttleworth \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb Microsoft is not the real threat &#8220;Microsoft already spends a huge amount of money on patent settlements&#8230;That number will creep upwards until it\u2019s abundantly clear to them that they would be better off if software patents were history.&#8221; &#8211; a point i tried to make at NXT (tags: NXT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}