What a good day! Possibly today is the best day for good news
So, first off, looks like Democrats are taking control of the House and Senate hopefully repealing and changing the current bad state of the United States. Then Rumsfeld resigns his post! What a great day!
I’m also feeling optimistic about the Microsoft/Novell deal now as well, as the complexities of it unfold.
Then, come to find out, one of my areas of major interest, Open Source Cellphones received a major boost with the announcement of the OpenMoko phone and Harold Welte’s involvment. This is great because I will be speaking at a conference in Taiwan in January, so hopefully can connect them up with Creative Commons Taiwan so we can get some properly licensed content onto these phones.
Oh, and to top it all off, tonite is the 10th Creative Commons Salon in San Francisco where the Homebrew Mobile Club, featuring Matthew Hamrick (who works for ACCESS, used to be palmsource) will be presenting about the “Complete Open Phone.”
UPDATE: The good news doesn’t end now that I see this post that Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt is calling for making data EXPORT a key strategy and encouraging others to do so, similar to something I wrote in the past. This is so great. I want to work with Google more!
Do realize that the article that makes you feel ‘optimistic’ was written by someone is is *literally* on Micro$oft’s payroll? Just look at the bottom of the article for the clarification about John Carroll’s employer. Trust me, this is just a campaign to make the Free/Open Source community off guard.
Comment by Bob — November 8, 2006 @ 6:54 pm
What, this is about to happen too!!!
http://www.crn.com.au/story.aspx?CIID=68000&src=site-marq
Comment by jon — November 8, 2006 @ 6:57 pm
It would be interesting to see if Sun chooses to use “any later version” of the GPL or if they stick solely to version 2. If they had chosen to license Java under the CDDL, it would probably be forward compatible with the GPLv3.
Comment by Bob — November 8, 2006 @ 8:00 pm
I think they will go with version 2. 3 is too problematic still and only in draft form…
Comment by jon — November 9, 2006 @ 1:36 pm
> Rumsfeld resigns his post! What a great day!
But Robert Gates replace him => Irangate and contras terrorists financement (US condamned by international justice court for that). few days after the return of president Ortega in Nicaragua. Not so fun.
http://www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/icases/inus/inusframe.htm
Robert Gates has also a great place in not so neutral voting machines and oil industry. No sign of better tomorrow…
Comment by Popolon — November 10, 2006 @ 6:31 pm
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Comment by Vikari — February 8, 2007 @ 3:22 am