Gnome developer and former Ximian guru, Luis Villa, has gone to law school. I just wrote about why it’s important for open source companies to have an attorney on staff. I can’t think of a better qualified attorney than one that also groks open source at the code and community levels. Luis knocks both of those balls out of the park.
Tag: opensource
voting with +1
quite possibly the earliest +1 🙂
SL Open source
opensourcing the SL client might be the watershed event for metaverse standards. i wonder how linden intends to play out this platform strategy. will they allow other clients on that undermine the linden $?
libsna
python-based social network analysis. LGPL
Hidden Interfaces to “Ownerless” Networks
We contacted all major manufacturers of Wifi chipsets in the US (2000-04) and requested interface documentation. We had little success and found unsupportable rationales for secrecy. We contend that constellations of private part 15 equipment should be considered as an “ownerless” whole network where interfaces should be compelled using a procedure similar to Sec. 68.110.
how the unavailability of hw docs slows down mesh networking r&d (and how the FCC is used as a scapegoat for secrecy)
@ stefan haefliger
stefan moved to a new host a year ago.
iFind
Using iFIND, you and your buddies can instantaneously exchange your locations on campus, talk to users nearby, and microcoordinate more effectively. If you are a geek, you will even be able to arrange meetings in real time using the group’s center of gravity!iFIND aims to give full control of location to the users. It is you who can choose, on a peer to peer basis, when to disclose your individual data and to whom.
an opensource plazes-like app built around the placelab dataset. i like their privacy controls, but why is this a java applet?
S3CDNFilter
phil writes a servlet filter to make CDN via S3 a snap. too many acronyms?
Google ICLA
where i have i seen this one before 🙂
Thread-Caching Malloc
very interesting. this looks so good it should be the default malloc, no?
Gregor J. Rothfuss 