After a minor dust up over my post on Adobe’s Open Source Media Framework, a few responses helped clarify my angst and also provided a constructive approach to evaluating “openness”. Specifically, Dion Almaer’s point system seems useful: 0 points: Say you are open 10 points: Choose an OSI license 20 points: Define the governance of [...]
I was happy to see Kirrily Robert’s “Standing Out in the Crowd” OSCON keynote (slides) make the rounds after she published a lengthy transcript of her talk on her blog. Given that diversity in technology is something that I’ve written about before, I find Kirrily’s approach insightful and useful. Rather than being accusatory, she offers [...]
Ok, so I see it now. It’s not like I didn’t have some notion of it before, but now it’s really obvious. It would seem as though I’ve become one of those mean and despised open source nut-case curmudgeons with nothing nice to say. How soon we forget the lessons our mothers taught us. While [...]