MozBlog 6.12 and Sylvain wondering to open source
Mike Lee released a new version of Mozblog - I'm currently running MozBlog 6.12 inside Mozilla 1.2.1. There happens to be some synchronization now between the main edit window and the metadata window for title, summary and categories. Not that I understand the synchronization currently but I assume that will come :-)
Links are now also displayed in blue and underlined, but I still want a context menu to get rid of a link - I need to go to the source view now. Another nit is the format toolbar, which is off by default - also, when you have some text selected, and switch on the toolbar to toggle italics, you need to reselect your text before it works. The distinction between the post and publish button has disappeared, there is only a publish button left. Fine with me. Old posts are now greyed out when you click on them, you need to hit edit post explicitely before you can edit and change them. I like such behaviour. I like it when system behaviour is declaratively made clear to/by users.
Aside, I just saw Sylvain mentioning a writeable source implementation for CVS. I like. He still needs to convince his colleagues to open source it. Maybe they should work for a week at the helpdesk of a commercial ISV, answering support questions. Or being forced to release new versions every 6 months because the customer has that upgrade assurance. Or Sylvain being hit by a bus.

8:29:47 PM    comment []  

Let's Spam S(p)am
... my aggregated news feeds have a much higher signal to noise ratio for me. You want to catch my interest? Say it in on a weblog. [from Sam Ruby: Demise of e-mail?]

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4:40:57 PM    comment []  

Bruce Perens at Ouverture
I went to the second meeting of Ouverture yesterday. The debate was lively, but the unexpected, special guest really was the icing on the cake. Poor Bruce was rather exhausted from excessive travelling, but still it was very interesting to hear his opinion on what we are trying to achieve: become the Belgian reference platform for companies involved in Open Source, both for networking and lobbying. Bruce brought up an interesting point: 95% of the software currently being written isn't made to be sold as a commercial package, so normally its public availability shouldn't affect the core business of a company. A lot of the software that gets written could be made open without touching the competitive position of its originator. When you look at the companies who are currently actively lobbying pro-patents in the EEC, most of them are commercial software vendors, or large system integrators, who are squarily aiming at their own benefit of course.
2:30:13 PM    comment []  

nicolaken @ freeroller.net
Back from Frankfurt, after two days of intense high bandwidth communication with other Cocoon developers, and Keiron from the FOP team, which I was very happy to meet :-) Anyway, I'm tired now, and I'll see if I can dump some of my thought here [from Verba Volant, Scripta Manent] ... Nicola now as a weblog. Still need to get on his blogroll, though ;-)
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