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Friday, 10 May 2002

Hacking the Highways [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters] 1:39:33 PM  comment []      Danese Cooper (of Sun) Finally Answers It's good to see such honest answers coming out of Sun (but does anyone else think that the 4 month question-answer lag might be due to Sun's legal department?). Historically the problem with JBoss was not so much whether or not they could afford to access the certification test suite, as whether it or any Open Source project was potentially a weakening of the value proposition. JBoss is an open source project. According to the Open Source Definition, JBoss can't pass on compatibility requirements to subsequent code licensees. While I want JBoss certified - I can agree with this argument from Sun's perspective. If JBoss is certified, what's to stop me writing my own certified app server by extending JBoss? Does JBoss need to be recertified for every version? Stable versions? Binary versions? These are all issues that the JBoss group needs to work out. Are they addressed anywhere online and I just haven't seen it yet? [via Slashdot] 1:39:32 PM  comment []      The art of office e-mail war. "Guerrilla warfare in the corporate world has been around a long time," says Hyde. "What e-mail does is make it easier to fight those battles. Just punch a button and it's done." [Salon.com] 1:30:34 PM  comment []      Radio 8: Multi-Author Weblog Tool. Cool, perhaps we could use this to manage the OpenSymphony news? [Scripting News] [Mac Net Journal] 1:20:06 PM  comment []      O'Reilly Network: Developing Highly Distributed Applications with Jtrix Interesting - very interesting. [evhead] 11:55:55 AM  comment []      And people laughed at me when I wanted to hold my 22nd at McDonald's. Now it's cool. 10:59:22 AM  comment []