Monthly Archives: October 2009
openSUSE 11.2 final release candidate ready!
How are you spending your Thursday evening? Me, I'll be slapping the openSUSE 11.2 final release candidate on my work machines and testing like crazy.
The last release candidate hit the mirrors on schedule today, with lots of goodies for Linux enthusiasts and new Linux users alike. You have your choice of desktop: KDE 4.3 or [...]
Ontario Linux Fest rocked!
It's a long way from Florida to Ontario, but it was totally worth it. Spent this weekend in Toronto to attend the Ontario Linux Fest for the first time. It was a smallish show, but the level of enthusiasm was enormous.
The quality of the talks, likewise, was enormous. And I'm not just saying that because [...]
Ontario Linux Fest
In just a few hours, I'll be in Toronto for the Ontario Linux Fest! Looking forward to meeting the OLF crowd and giving the Musical Guide "remix" keynote tomorrow. "Remix" because I had the opportunity to do the talk the first time at LinuxCon in September, and this time around I'll be giving a slightly [...]
RMS says GPLv2 isn't good enough to protect MySQL (but it is)
I was surprised, to say the least, this morning to read Simon Phipps' tweet that "Richard Stallman and others declare GPL inadequate to protect software freedom." Lack of caffeine, maybe? Nope. Stallman and Knowledge Ecology International really have sent a letter to the European Commission saying that Oracle shouldn't be permitted to acquire MySQL in [...]
Know your audience: Going beyond "true believers"
In line with my post last week about how to market FOSS, and what to lead with, Seth Godin talks about listening to the true believers. In short, if you look at just about any topic area you'll find "true believers" who are deeply involved with the issue at hand, but largely out of sync [...]
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Open Source marketing: Lead with Free or benefits?
Spent most of last week in Boston, Massachusetts. Actually, I spent most of the week in Waltham for Novell's FY10 Interlock meetings. Since I'm the "community guy" most of the stuff wasn't directly related to my job, but it is good to know what's going on with the rest of the company and have a [...]
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