Category: General

Funnyside of Open Source

I read this really funny sequence of comments to Hani's recent post about a spat between Bob Lee, who contributed some AOP code to the JBoss 4.0 effort, and Marc Fleury, fearless leader of JBoss.

Marc Fleury

Hani, perhaps you could name your sources… CDN? Cameron? chiara? carlos V who seems to have a thing for my wife? cedric? rickard? the list goes on when you are as popular as we are and talk the way I do…

Anonymous1

Hey Carlos, since when do you have a thing for Mrs. Fleury? Marc doesn't seem to mind – that's the real spirit of open source: LGPL your wife.

Marc Fleury

jon tirsen: are you pissed off because I called IoC "gay"? I am sorry if you took that personally, that was just my view on the technology.

So once and for all
I WILL HUNT YOU ALL DOWN FOR TRYING TO PROFIT FROM THE INTERNET. THE INTERNET BELONGS TO JBOSS AND ME ME ME AND ANY OF YOU TRYING TO USE IT AND PAY JBOSS ZERO DOLLARS WILL PAY IN BLOOD SWEAT TOIL AND TEARS!!!!

And as a night cap for all you bad boys out there. I heard from a friend of a friend of friend (who might be as reliable as hani's source) who mentioned JBoss to Alfred Chuang from BEA and I quote "he flipped a switch, he said JBoss was a crazy company that had STOLEN THEIR CODE (!!!!!!!) but that he couldn't sue us because he was afraid for his life". Now THAT is pretty crazy.

Anonymous2

LGPL mrs Fleury? wow I'll have a piece of that!

But knowing Dr Marc he wouldn't go for that license. He would go for the GPL. The GPL would require you give your wife back in return.

Let's even not get started on the BSD license, with the BSD you can take the wife and run.

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Actually GPL would require that you released any progeny back to the community. That's just wrong in so many ways.

Bob Lee

Can we pull the sticks out of our asses and stop taking ourselves so seriously?

Jon Tirsen

And by all means keep calling IoC "gay" I certainly don't mind. It's trendy to be "gay".

Looks like open source communities take their openness seriously.  I have heard many hilarious spats like this before but never out in the open like this.

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p dir=”ltr”>Thanks to the guys for the ROFL.  I needed the exercise.

Don Park’s Fireside/Beachside Chats

Franklin D. Roosevelt made radio addresses by a fireplace called Fireside Chats which I always admired about.  I have been to a few Blogger's Dinners and Geek Dinners but never felt satisfied coming back home because, while I met many people, depth of the conversations weren't deep enough.  I could chat online with practically anyone on earth, but such virtual exchanges are not as immersive as face to face conversations.

So I am thinking about having a fireside chat once a month with a handful of guests.  I don't have a location picked out yet, but it should be a cozy location somewhere on the Penninsula, maybe a backroom of a bar or restaurant.  There was a nice little bar just off highway 92 at top of the mountain range I visited long time ago which would be perfect, but I am not sure if it is still there.

During the summer, it can be held during the day at a beach (Half Moon Bay?) on weekends with cold beer.  What do you guys think?

Social Software for the Deads

Yesterday, I dreamt that my father died.  So I woke up upset and disturbed.  Disturbed because my father is going to Paris today, a trip I have a bad foreboding about.  Chewing bad mojo all morning led me to think about using blogs as a memorial of sort and then spilled out into thinking about dead people in social networks.  Here are some notable pieces from that trail:

Rewinding a blog back in time

I thought it might be neat to have a blog that moves backward in time with posts sorted in reverse order.  So when I die, my blog will show posts from the day before I died and then the day before that and so on.  There will be blog comments by visitors before and after I died.  There are problems with this idea but is worth savoring to look for hidden passages to new ideas.

Blogging from the Grave

It would also be interesting to turn my blog into a wiki-ish blog after I died so that my friends can post to my blog for one reason or another.  In a sense, 'I' continue to live within the mind of my friends so 'I' am still blogging from the grave.

The Dead as a Party Host

I mentioned before that a 'center' of a social network doesn't have to coordinate or even be aware of the synergy he or she creates.  Come to think of it, the center doesn't even have to be alive.  For example, people who met each other at a funeral forms a social network around a dead person.

Zombies in Orkut

What should happen when a member of Orkut or LinkedIn dies?  It's bound to happen or have happened already.  Should his node disappear?  That doesn't make sense.  Two people having a friend in common is relevant even if the friend happens to be dead.  But if the node is left within the network, what are the downsides other than having to add a gravestone icon to the profile?

How to Capitalize on Blogging

I'll be attending How to Capitalize on Blogging, a Fastlane Ventures Workshop, this Thursday.  I am not lacking knowledge nor ideas on the subject but I need to see where others are and what they are thinking about.

Update:

The workshop was in a less than ideal setting, had equipment problems, and was slow going in the morning, but it eventually lead to some interesting discussions on advertising and branded news aggregators.  It was also refreshing to see people go from ground level questions like 'what is a blog?' to 'how can I use RSS to integrate information spanning applications and companies?' in a few hours.

Adam Kalsey, Judith Meskill, and Bill French were excellent speakers too.  Bill, in particular, showed me how to turn a generic technology tutorial into a product presentation in an enjoyable and seamless way.  If he could write, he could be dangerous. 

e-SuperBowl?

e-Sport is taking off in broadband-happy Korea.  On January 30th, 20 thousand screaming teens packed a stadium in Pusan to watch…two guys play StarCraft.  Close to two hundred professional game tournaments like this were held in Korea last year with prize totalling $5 million.  While the prize money is still small, professional game players in Korea are now gaining idol status enjoyed by singers, actors, and major sports stars.

Revenue Pheeds

Commercial interest in RSS seems to be heating up.  I was intrigued by the domain name (pheedo.com) of one of the commenters (Bill Flitter) to the Ads in Feeds and OEM News Aggregators posts, so I looked up and found this:

Pheedo provides comprehensive solutions to help publishers maximize revenue from content syndication including RSS and ATOM formats.

Maybe Bill Flitter can talk a bit about his (Portland-based?) company and what it's about.  Bill?

Is it just me or am I starting to sound like Larry King?