{"id":412,"date":"2005-04-21T13:49:44","date_gmt":"2005-04-21T20:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp\/?p=412"},"modified":"2005-04-21T13:49:44","modified_gmt":"2005-04-21T20:49:44","slug":"pre-travel-braindump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2005\/04\/21\/pre-travel-braindump\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-travel Braindump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have gathered from my earlier post today, I&#8217;m furiously trying to finalize the last few details for my close tomorrow in Denver (and yes, they asked me for a lot more paperwork today), but before I go, a few random things that warrant a mention. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/searchhistory\/welcome\">Google Search History<\/a>: This, in my mind, will further blur the lines between search and tagging, as one can potentially think of a particular saved search that led to a result as just another type of tag. (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unto.net\/unto\/work\/google-history-redux\/\">here<\/a> for a thoughtful take from an A9 employee)<\/li>\n<li><b>A Developer&#8217;s Kind of Marketer<\/b>: Spoke to a vendor marketing representative yesterday who I won&#8217;t name (though they should feel free to identify themselves if they wish) that actually <i>initiated<\/i> a dialogue around del.icio.us, Flickr and tagging in general. First time that I can recall that&#8217;s happened. Very refreshing, and a good sign for the product line in question.<\/li>\n<li><b>OSI, &#8220;Asymmetrical licenses&#8221; and the MPL<\/b>: I&#8217;ve talked to more than a few vendors with substantial, vested interests in open source that were &#8211; to put it mildly &#8211; taken aback by the wording (which is poorly phrased and not at all clear, IMO) on the OSI&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensource.org\/docs\/policy\/licenseproliferation.php\">current statement<\/a> vis a vis license proliferation, which Danese sort of &#8211; but not really &#8211; apologized for <a href=\"http:\/\/danesecooper.blogs.com\/divablog\/2005\/04\/cddl_mpl_and_li.html\">here<\/a>.   While I agree that license proliferation is a potential issue, I don&#8217;t see it as the crisis that some do, as the licenses that don&#8217;t build communities will in my view be of increasingly limited utility and popularity. More to the point, I don&#8217;t view the MPL as inherently flawed or wrong, as the OSI apparently does. Good alternative take to Danese&#8217;s piece by Simon Phipps <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.com\/roller\/page\/webmink\/20050415\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Optaros<\/strong>: Anyone who wants to understand open source would do well to give <a href=\"http:\/\/www.optaros.com\/pdf\/ParadoxOfChoice.pdf\">r0ml<\/a> (PDF) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.optaros.com\/pdf\/USENIX-OSSBusiness.pdf\">Stephe<\/a> (PDF) from Optaros&#8217; presentations a look. They&#8217;re long, and I don&#8217;t agree with everything in there (most notably r0ml&#8217;s assertion that one throat to choke directly equates to vendor lock in) but they are excellent looks at the <i>business<\/i> of open source, as opposed to the ethos. And in case anyone&#8217;s got their cynicism hat on today, Optaros are not clients of ours.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lots of other stuff percolating, but too much last minute catching up to do. Will be back with you when I&#8217;m able, though it almost certainly won&#8217;t be tomorrow (unless something goes wrong with my closing).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have gathered from my earlier post today, I&#8217;m furiously trying to finalize the last few details for my close tomorrow in Denver (and yes, they asked me for a lot more paperwork today), but before I go, a few random things that warrant a mention. Google Search History: This, in my mind,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-redmonk-miscellaneous"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","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=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}