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 dinsdag 10 december 2002
Cluetrain at work
ComputerWire: Fleury said JBoss would now seek standards certification for its implementation. JBoss stands to become the first open source group to deliver a version of J2EE 1.4 under the revised JCP. None of this would have been possible without the hard work of Jason Hunter. [from Sam Ruby: Open Source J2EE 1.4 gets Sun green light] Woohoo!

3:44:12 PM    comment []  

Sean McGrath - blast from the past
I found the weblog of Sean McGrath today - with the slightly pompous feed title of 'Sean McGrath, CTO, Propylon'. I remember talking to him a long-long time ago about setting up an XML/Python workshop in Belgium, after I had seen him speaking on some XML Europe conference. Must be years ago. I used to be a very regular attendee of that conference until last year, for obvious reasons. It's nice and funny to see how people evolve over the years.
Scanning his weblog, I see references to XML pipelining, and his company announcing a J2EE product which supports such pipelines. He must have been looking at Cocoon, NekoStyle and Jelly.
Also read his Privilege of XML parsing - Data types, binary XML and XML pipelines.
1:58:56 PM    comment []  

Free Software Law
Nicolas Pettiaux of the French Community Commission, and one of the people involved in Ouverture, pointed us towards the report (French) on the meeting about the proposed law on the use of Free Software in government administration. Of course, with the elections slowly approaching, there is some chance that this never gets voted upon, but still it is an interesting evolution. The youth section of Agalev, a 'green' political party, even made it into an e-card campaign and wants Linux to be on the political agenda of the mainstream parties. Unfortunately, most of this mouvement is focused on Linux as the rethorical Free Software archetype, and Linux is only the tip of the iceberg with regards to Free Software. My recurring argument is that Free Software should be more than just using LAMP, it should be based on the willingness to invest more into employees instead of external suppliers.
8:47:33 AM    comment []