Freitag, 8. November 2002

Happy birthday Aaron!!

Seeding. If I was in Marketing, then I would write that this will "revolutionize the way Cocoon applications are developed." But I'm not. However, Carsten and Martin have been busy lately...

Halloween VII: Old news - but still worth a link and a comment. Where is this heading. Here is what I think will happen: Take I: Microsoft will release IE for Linux. The press release will read something like this: Microsoft recognizes the strength of Linux and is proud to support the open source community by porting the world's best browser to this exciting new [sic] platform. Take II: Eventually, Microsoft will release that Office Version for Linux that has been in hiding for the past 2 years. It will quickly be bundled with SuSE and other distributions.  At the same time Microsoft Office for Mac OS X will be withdrawn. The press release will read like this: Microsoft recognizes the strong position of Linux in the commercial environment and is proud to support the open source business community by porting the world's best office product to this exciting new [sic] platform.  Take III: At the same time MS will announce its official support for Linux accross nearly the complete product range. Note that the products themselves will not be open source or free. Take IV: Microsoft will release their own Linux distribution and what will it be called? "Halloween" !! Complete with bundled Microsoft applications. How will they be able to do this you ask? After all they do not have any Linux knowhow in Redmond. Well, of course they do have open source know how...but not enough. So what will they do? As always - BUY. How much would a company like SuSE cost to buy - in MS terms? Pennies.  Take V: Once the world has switched to using the Halloween distribution of Linux - who will have won? Go figure.

W-Jax transcripts: Dominic is looking for transcripts on the W-Jax sessions held in Munich this week. Unfortunately I think he is out of luck. The sessions were in German and due to the lack of Internet access - no weblogs. In fact blogging a conference is still something that is unknown here. I can put my (German) slides up if they would be of interest.

Good Morning Europe! World Tour: Stefano Mazzocchi kicks off his world tour in London. Of course he really started in Paderborn last week. XML-RPC2Aggregator: Dave Winer puts up the spec for the XML-RPC interface to the integrated RSS Aggregator in Radio. This allows you to use the functionality in Radio but to write your own gui - instead of using the browser frontend that is in Radio. Where is Sam? What have I missed? No updates this week. Overture: Overture is the name of the Belgian Forum for the promotion of Free and Open Source Software in business.