Malus promises to liberate open source, but they just fired the opening shot across the bow of the software industry. Let’s dive in. Open Source First off, open source doesn’t need to be liberated from anything. You can read it and use it today, but what you can’t do under some of the licenses is take …

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Cover photo from Wikipedia Don’t think social media owes you a damn thing Over time different people get mad at things social media sites do and complain as if they are entitled to some level of service or performance from the site. This has happened a lot in the last year. Twitter has shifted operational …

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Remember when O’Reilly sold books? Books I know they still sell books, but try to find where. No really. You go to O’Reilly and try and find a book, just a single book. On that first page I find the word book once and it is a range reference implying that books are the low order item and conferences are the …

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I’m not talking about having being more materialistic or going out to consume and shop. No, I’m talking about the things you think you already own, but do you really? Ownership There were a lot of things to worry about in 2021. I’m not going to touch most of the ones that come to mind. What we …

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Where did we go wrong? There have been on going jokes about where is my jet pack, flying car, robot, space station vacation, and so on; for years. A lot of views of the future have come and gone and they rarely look like what we have today. Artist and dreamers views aside, there were views of the engineers who set the …

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