Question for those of you who have been using wikis for awhile as an archive dump of random thoughts and processes (both professional and personal):  What tricks have you come up with to force yourself to go visit old links on the wiki?  The power of the wiki in group contexts is awesome, but most of the benefit is the transfer of info from writer to the reader.  What are the steps that you take to keep those "A-HA!" moments that you record in your wikis for personal posterity fresh in your mind?  Lately, I've been going back through my personal desktop WikidPad and rediscovering pertinent info that I had let sit inactive for awhile. 

You can post all relevant tips and tricks in my wiki WikiInfoMining page!

2:14:02 PM  #  

Great analysis of the legal implications of the Linux/SCO lawsuit in the new issue of Fortune. If you tech-heads can get past the simplified, bludgeoned history of Linux/Open Source/Free Software there is actually a lot of great insight in the article on the legal front.

Though SCO's key original claim against IBM was dramatic and easy to empathize with—the claim that IBM dumped Unix code into Linux—it has subsequently become clear through courtroom give-and-take that SCO's claim is actually more attenuated. The crux, as McBride concedes in an interview, is really that IBM dumped into Linux AIX code that IBM wrote itself but that SCO says is "derivative" of Unix and therefore covered by the confidentiality provisions of IBM's original license with AT&T. It's not a preposterous reading of the license, but it's an aggressive one.

If you want to understand why there is so much press behind this "frivolous lawsuit" led by a company on the verge of bankruptcy against a group of work-for-free hackers and their end users this is a really good place to start.

11:14:39 AM  #