Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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This is my (in)activity log. You might like to visit my employer
Novell which is an amazing company, and also
Dell who in days of yore provided me with a
free laptop for Gnome development / conferences.
Also if you have the time to read this sort of stuff you could enlighten
yourself by going to Unraveling Wittgenstein's net or if
you are feeling objectionable perhaps here.
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- Poked mail, prodded bugs. The news appears increasingly
surreal today - with part of the $1bn worth of MySQL moving in a closed-source
direction, while questions as to Is Solaris truly open
source make interesting reading: From what we can tell, the company [Sun] wants
to exist by both fueling and then riding off community-based development. Which is
not the exact same thing as community development itself, at least for fervent
believers of the idea. Whether volunteer developers will rally around software
still primarily associated with a single company remains to be seen ... (or
not seen as the case may be). Then of course Google's Android appears to worry Sun execs:
"Anything that creates a more diverse or fractured platform is not in
(developers') best interests," said Rich Green, - apparently sublimely
unaware that fragmentation may be a direct result of Sun's approach to
'open'source. "Android ... will be available as open source under a nonrestrictive
license," Google said in a statement.. Echos from other places of the continued
demand that all of OpenOffice.org be entirely Sun owned ?
- More bug testing in factory; amused to find & fix another
trivial 2-line OO.o bug, breaking the gtk+ systray applet, as missed by the
extra-onerous Sun CWS process. Prodded some web bits.
- Had fun chopping through some tarmac and digging an inspection hole
to see what state the foundations are in along the side of the house. Amazed by
how deep the sewer inspection hole is - 4feet or so: children suitably interested
in the concept that their 'waste water' can be seen shortly afterwards passing
the hole. Dug my own hole at a safe distance - 1foot down came to some concrete,
left getting below that to another day.
- Call with Guy, Kelli's staff, call with Torsten Duwe. Dinner,
back to work writing a paper.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Novell, The
Lithuanian Gov't or Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's also important to
realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences,
bio.
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@novell.com)
