Nov 02 2009
Skype open source? Reading the full announcement on Skype blog:
[...]Having an open source UI will help us [...]
So, it’s not Skype being open sourced, but it’s only the UI. The full sentence should be:
Having an open source UI will help us further our [Skype's] plans to monopolize the Voice Over IP market with a proprietary [...]
Oct 17 2009
Just don’t buy that combo: Mac and BlackBerry are two very closed environments, they don’t want to be interoperable, they hate each other and their customers.
Not that I would make such mistake, never. But I have friends that do this kind of stuff and then I’m enough of a friend to share with them the [...]
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Sep 28 2009
I’ve been listening to the conversations about Mono since this summer. I was waiting for the dust to settle before I started re-reading the various comments but the dust is not settling and the protagonists of the summer name-calling-fest are still busy pointing fingers at Richard Stallman for stating his opinion.
Stallman’s position is pretty clear [...]
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Feb 27 2009
The issue is how to bring the values of free software community to the cloud. According to reports from Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE), Bradley Kuhn’s speech has addressed the issue.’ I hope he will include it in the next episodes of the Software Freedom Law Show, the interesting podcasts he runs with SFLC counsel [...]
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Sep 11 2008
When it comes to connecting people, the first thing you need to do is use the same language.’ That doesn’t mean force everybody to use your language, because that’s what dictators do (and dictators are wiped out by history). To connect people you have to adapt to people’s language, eventually learning many of them.
This post [...]
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Apr 22 2008
Lots of talking about Microsoft lately.’ As I expected, Ray Ozzie’s public appearances are increasing with declarations of love for the magic word interoperability and with a new, more open, attitude.’ I believe it’s true that “Microsoft fundamentally, as a whole, has changed dramatically as a result of open source,” as Ozzie said.
Roberto wrote a [...]
Mar 28 2008
I love geo-information.’ I still work on GIS, every now and then (I’ve just finished a project to map damages in Venetian buildings together with Politecnico di Milano and others) and it’s so much fun.’ ’ It’s great when you can integrate data from different sources and make sense of different phenomenons. The Venice application maps [...]
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Mar 12 2008
Come funziona sta cosa? Il Comune di Milano “regala” a tutti i suoi cittadini residenti i prodotti non interoperabili di un monopolista?
Il servizio è sperimentale, gratuito e ti permetterà di utilizzare tutti i servizi di Windows Live tra cui: account di posta, messaggistica istantanea, avvisi, calendario ed eventi, spazio di condivisione e collaborazione…
Mi pare [...]
Dec 20 2007
Standards can be a Royal PITA and every developer and hacker knows that. But for users they’re the only way not to go crazy. Web standards give users the possibility to connect to the Internet from any device and blog, check email, get and make information. The debate is heating up on [...]
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Dec 18 2007
Here we are again with the European Commission being asked by a competitor to remind Microsoft that competition doesn’t mean abuse of dominant position. I have a sense of deja-vu. Opera Software has asked the EC to investigate if Microsoft is abusing its dominant position by tying its browser, Internet Explorer, to the [...]
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