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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Up early packed babes off to school with J. Poked at mail and
the web, phoned up Toyota in irritation at this
presumably there is some alternative explanation for their apparent
incompetance. Then again, after the horribly mis-spelled, poor grammer in
a 5x page advert in the Economist (of all places), perhaps their marketing
department is just horribly sub-standard.
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Pleased to read that OO.o is substantially
more popular than the leading web office suite: it at least confirms my
prejudice & hype-ometer readings. The question is - why would anyone throw
away their huge, working application, and start re-writing it wholesale in
JavaScript ? I mean, don't even know anyone that claims JavaScript is an
ideal language, or has some radical new programmer productivity metaphore to
better other languages; at least the whole (failed) "re-write everything
in Java" religion (that suckered Corel) had something going for it at the
time language-wise. Of course, collaboration and ubiquity are important - but
apparently not that important.
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Interested to read Jonathon's value
of distribution paper:
An auction's afoot (no pun intended) to see who we'll be
partnering with us to integrate their businesses and brands into our binary
product distribution - the possibilities are limitless: people tend to
print those documents, fax them, copy them, project them (and I know
this annoys my friends in the free software community, but branding
allows us to invest more in OO.o community and features, from which
everyone benefits).
It looks like we can all look forward to more Sun (or other) brands
across OO.o, and auctions (with presumably un-disclosed terms &
payments) for product positioning inside OO.o (as well as Java). The
piece about investing more in OO.o is a bit rich though, given the fact
of their
declining
investment. As a corollary - Is success having
a Sun watermark on every printed page ?. Another interesting aspect
of this blog is how Java (and Java ISVs) are being used to drive MySQL
adoption: seems reasonable; but what if you contribute to (or use) Java
but don't like MySQL ? (perhaps preferring the better postgresql eg.) and don't want
your support and use of Java to turn into support for MySQL: bad luck
I guess.
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Poked at Clarity time-keeping, more mail; lunch with Bruce
& Anne. Call with JP. Filed patch adding the intel 865G to the
compiz black-list, sad - since it used to work really nicely with Mesa 7.2.
Played with the accessible 11.1 live-CD again, looking a lot better
than before.
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)
