Tuesday, December 03, 2002

Creative Commons Launch! Creative Commons Launch!. After lots of hard work, the Creative Commons will soon be launching: Join us in celebrating the release of our… [Aaron Swartz: The Weblog] I loved Lessig's first book and I've followed the recent controversies about Copyright (The Edred case). Creative Commons is a pragmatic step to fix these issues. 9:38:55 PM    comment []

JBoss the Next Apache?. JBoss the Next Apache?. An interesting editorial piece has been published that is suggesting that JBoss is becoming to the app server what Apache is to the web server. What does the J2EE community think? [TheServerSide.Com: Your J2EE Community] Go JBoss ! 8:45:24 PM    comment []

Sam Ruby has a Bias for Action A Bias for Action. ... The way that these disputes tend to get resolved in Apache is that somebody steps up to the plate and builds the darn thing as best as they can and solicits input in the form of "patches" (tangible suggestions in the form of working code).  The original code provided is generally not important - it tends to get refactored away anyway into oblivion.  What is important is that it focuses discussion into the form of constructive and tangible input. In this case, I have done exactly that.  List and source.  Patches welcome. [Sam Ruby] I like Sam's healthy pragmatic attitude. He showed it a while ago in a post in ant-dev when explaining the different hats and attitudes he adopted when commiting to a jakarta project. Can't find the mail anymore but I remember it vividly. I think it was during the sad polemics between James-Duncan Davidson and the rest of the ant commiters. 8:40:07 PM    comment []