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Sun: Trying to do the right thing

http://blogs.gnome.org/ bolsh/ 2008/ 04/ 28/ sun-trying-to-do-the-right-thing/

I’ve been annoyed by some of the Sun-bashing that has been going on over the past few months and years. I’ve written in the past about my belief that Sun are trying to do the right thing, and my appreciation for the investment that they’ve put into projects I care about. And yet no matter what they do, it seems like there are nay-sayers working to undermine Sun’s community-building efforts at every turn. Here’s a few examples of Sun-bashing that I’ve seen recently: No projects primarily sponsored by Sun get accepted to the Google Summer of Code (unless you count MySQL).

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The paradigm of the open organization
http://flors.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/the-paradigm-of-the-op...
75 days ago in flors · Authority: 49

Forget now about labels and conventions: there is not such thing as free software, like there is not such thing as free speech. There are free developers and free speakers, and they are the ones setting the limits of freedom of their products and actions. If they are not free, how free can be the result of their actions? The license and contribution policy of a piece of open source software might tell something about how free it is. What is really useful though is to look at the levels of openness and freedom in the organization that develops, integrates and distributes that code. How open is an organization? Consider this checklist as a barometer: Identity Clear mission - Full disclosed objectives. Declared commitments - Affinities and aversions explained. Explicit connections outside - Relationships with other organizations listed. Structure Horizontal organization - Teams and facilitators work on responsibilities and agreements. Identified contributors - Who is who, people is reachable. Clear responsibilities - Who is in charge or what. Activities described - All the ongoing work is acknowledged. Operation Open participation - Anybody can access the information and get a first responsibility. Meritocracy - Responsibilities are acquired (or lost) based on own skills and contributors’ support. Voluntary (non-)engagement - Nobody is forced to be involved or to keep responsibilities. Information Regular reports - Reported activities and future plans allow monitoring and participation. Information accessible - Even internal operational information is available by default. Explicit confidentiality - It is explained what areas are confidential, why and who access them. Goods Economic model - Feasibility and sustainability plans are exposed. Resources - Inventory of items detailing who contributed what and why. Public accounts - It’s clear where the money comes from and where it goes. How was your rating? All this came to mind because it is in the organizational setting where the average corporation collides with the average open source community, and compromises need to be made from both sides. The result in many cases is the creation of a third way picking elements from both contexts, like maemo today. How open is maemo? How open could and should it be? The debate about Sun trying to do the right thing has jumped to maemo and is evolving interestingly. Nokia is also trying to do the right thing, but this is a topic for another day. I just wanted to share an old text I wrote five years ago and never got the time to translate to English: El paradigma de la organización abierta. Image by researchexchange (some rights reserved)
links for 2008-04-30
http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/04/29/links-for-2008-04-30/
79 days ago in tecosystems » because technology is just another ecosystem · Authority: 239

Joyeur: This is going to be big… seems like a few folks are trying to conflate the development tools with the cloud; will be interesting to see how that’s received, as most of the web developers i know are fairly wedded to their editors/IDEs and want choice. (tags: joyeur aptana cloud application-development tools) Safe as Milk » Blog Archive » Sun: Trying to do the right thing half a dozen folks have sent this in, in which dneary - a #redmonk regular - looks at Sun’s behavior with respect to open source (tags: sun opensource gnome opensolaris linux solaris foss) Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: McKinsey surveys the new software landscape the times, they are a’changing (tags: nicholascarr mckinsey saas software tools enterprise market trends work) The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment « Content Consumer hilarious. i think some of these are a bit advanced (e.g. Photoshop-ing), but it’s a great look at what just works and what still needs improvement (tags: usability design experiment ubuntu linux firefox hardyheron) Missed Twitter Questions from Jonathan Schwartz Interview at Web 2.0 Expo - O’Reilly Radar some good questions in here (tags: twitter sun interview oreilly web2.0 opensource jonathanschwartz) JetBlue | Manage flights | Flight notification good to see this, finally (tags: jetblue flight notification alerts) Purple Labs - Mobile Linux solutions this is interesting; don’t know the Purple folks (tags: phone linux embedded mobile via:michael) Lenovo’s IdeaPad U110 available for order, shipping soon - Engadget if i hadn’t used an X300 - and this had a Trackpoint - i probably would have ordered one of these by now. but i have, and it doesn’t. (tags: lenovo ideapad u110 laptop ultralight) Share This
Links for 10 Apr 2008 - 29 Apr 2008
http://www.lildude.co.uk/links-for-10-apr-2008-29-apr-2008/
80 days ago in Col’s Tech Stuff · Authority: 10

Links of interest for 10 Apr 2008 - 29 Apr 2008: easySMF at OpenSolaris.org - Cool. A web based tool for easy SMF manifest creation. Simply enter the various bits of information, generate the XML file and import it into SMF. Much quicker and easier than writing it all out by hand. Sun: Trying to do the right thing - It's nice to see someone actually seeing things from Sun's point of view, without actually being a Sun employee. Well done. Sun looks to free up the rest of Java - Nice one. Ultimate HTML Color HEX Code List by COLOURlovers - A great quick lookup for HTML colours. Sun’s UltraSPARC T2+ servers ship full of Niagara Viagra - Imagine how your multi-threaded application would fly if you could utilise all 128 threads simultaneously: you'll see your app fly like you've never seen before. ShareThis Copyright © 2008 for Col's Tech Stuff (Permalink)
for the last time, i’m not at Sun anymore
http://whacked.net/2008/04/29/for-the-last-time-im-not-at-su...
80 days ago in that’s whacked » 2006 · Authority: 1

From Dave Neary’s nicely written blog… to Theodore, I’m not at Sun anymore. I left 7 months ago, while still in my first term on the OGB, and I was re-elected as a community member who does not work for Sun. I did drink the kool-aid for 4.5 years… but I’d like to think I still think for myself and have independent thoughts. kthxbai!
for the last time, i’m not at Sun anymore
http://whacked.net/2008/04/29/for-the-last-time-im-not-at-su...
80 days ago in that’s whacked » 2007 · Authority: 6

From Dave Neary’s nicely written blog… to Theodore, I’m not at Sun anymore. I left 7 months ago, while still in my first term on the OGB, and I was re-elected as a community member who does not work for Sun. I did drink the kool-aid for 4.5 years… but I’d like to think I still think for myself and have independent thoughts. kthxbai!
for the last time, i’m not at Sun anymore
http://whacked.net/2008/04/29/for-the-last-time-im-not-at-su...
80 days ago in that’s whacked · Authority: 63

From Dave Neary’s nicely written blog… to Theodore, I’m not at Sun anymore. I left 7 months ago, while still in my first term on the OGB, and I was re-elected as a community member who does not work for Sun. I did drink the kool-aid for 4.5 years… but I’d like to think I still think for myself and have independent thoughts. kthxbai!