Tuesday, October 29, 2002

You Win Some.... Carlos has an interesting post about my rantings, telling me I'm completely wrong about my assumptions of M$ Tech: -Russ [Russell Beattie Notebook] 7:32:18 PM    comment []

Mozilla as a SOAP client Mozilla -> Axis -> EJB. I've just finish converting an application from Mozilla -> XML-RPC -> EJB to Mozilla -> Axis -> EJB and it's... [<big>kev's</big> catalogue of this and that.] I just discovered big Kev from Russel's Blog and I subscribed to his feed: lots of good stuff there. The flurry of projects on Mozdev was just the start. Now that Moz has SOAP libraries, we should see many interesting stuff coming out with Moz as a client or P2P platform. 1:53:52 PM    comment []

Tim O'Reilly about Free Software Businesses Successful Free Software Businesses. I reiterate my arguments on the free software business mailing list, about why free software businesses need to be less dogmatic about who's in and who's out, and instead learn lessons from all businesses using free software, especially those building internet based service businesses on top of them. The followup by Ian Lance Taylor is especially right on. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] An interesting read. This part made me think, and smile: Company leverages free software strategically because it benefits from commodity software, and proactively engages with the F/OSS community even though it gets most of its revenue from other sources. Examples: IBM, HP, (Apple), (Sun) Company leverages free software strategically, tries to learn lessons from the free/open source software model, but depends on proprietary software or other proprietary IP for the heart of its business model. Examples: Microsoft, (Sun) It's all Sun's tragedy that it belongs to these 2 categories, so that its software strategy and attitude towards free software was never very clear. We'll see what the new Sun ONE strategy leads to. 1:45:34 PM    comment []

TCPA and Palladium technical analysis. This article tries to be an objective technical analysis on the TCPA hardware system and the Palladium operating system. It covers the most important technical details on TCPA and the (dis)information Microsoft has given about Palladium. The full text is reproduced in this article, though you can also view updated versions in english (TCPA and Palladium technical analysis) or spanish (Análisis técnico de TCPA y Palladium) [kuro5hin.org] 9:07:42 AM    comment []