I/O PodcastPodcasting the inside of Sun Microsystems, for those on the outside.Open Source Solaris.- June 21, 2004 You wouldn't be hearing this if blogs.sun.com wasn't around. Andy Tucker, Sun Distinguished Engineer, talks about his job of Open Sourcing Solaris on his blog. It's been mentioned in the press a few times, but now you're up close and personal.http://blogs.sun.com/rgiles/entry/open_source_solaris Microsoft Begins To Sue The World.- June 20, 2004 Simon Phipps points to Lawrence Lessig's (Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, lawyer for web site operator Eric Eldred in the ground-breaking case Eldred v. Ashcroft, author, etc. etc.) blog who reveals that Microsoft's lawyers are suing a Brazilian Government Official that made recycled statements like Microsoft use of "'drug-dealer practice' for offering the operational system Windows to some governments and cities for digital inclusion programs". I say recycled, because as Simon points..http://blogs.sun.com/rgiles/entry/microsoft_begins_to_sue_the Negroponte On Innovation.- June 18, 2004 Nicholas Negroponte has been a role model of mine for about 10 years. I'd read his articles in Wired, and bought his Being Digital book while at University. These days he's not as plorific. So it's great when an article pops up with him in it, and it's interesting to compare what he sees coming with what Sun is currently doing. For me there is two key takeaways from the article in Business Week, Q&A With MIT's Nicholas Negroponte. Peer-to-peer and R&D. Negroponte says that "Peer-to-peer is...http://blogs.sun.com/rgiles/entry/negroponte_on_innovation |