Comments for Roblag

Comment on Thoughts on dual licensing and contrib agreements by Kent Quirk

Kent Quirk — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:30:47 +0000

Hi, Rob. Thanks for this balanced discussion. As someone currently on the "original provider of source" side of the discussion, I'm always a bit disappointed that the organizations who generated the code in the first place don't get more credit with contributors. We provide, say, a million or so lines of working code for people to do with pretty much as they please, and people get upset that we want to preserve our rights to it with an agreement.

Conversely, it's easy for organizations to forget that often, the main benefit the contributor gets is seeing their contributions taken upstream.

What I'd really like to see is more tolerance and patience on both sides. There should be value for both parties.

Comment on Sorry about the NASCAR-looking comment area by robla

robla — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:11:23 +0000

Cool…glad to see the Twitter option has already come in handy!

Comment on Sorry about the NASCAR-looking comment area by @ZaiLynch

@ZaiLynch — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:00:02 +0000

Looks nice imho. Like this openID stuff <3

Comment on Moving on by Rob Knop

Rob Knop — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:27:18 +0000

Dude, do you want to start a business?

(Just kidding– I need to work for a company that's got a health plan.)

I look forward to learning about what you're going to do next.

With you gone and Philip doing his other thing, I fear for the future of open source at LL…

Comment on Mobiguous company names by mocality

mocality — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:39:09 +0000

HA! and now Mocality is a reality too!! http://www.mocality.co.ke. We are the fastest growing Kenyan Mobile Business Directory.

Comment on Brutal honesty in open source development by Gigs

Gigs — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:54:43 +0000

I had a ton of trouble upgrading ubuntu too… weird thing is, it worked right away on our new Dell laptop. I guess that must be what one of the pulseaudio devs uses.

Comment on A hard problem worth solving by Gigs

Gigs — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:48:37 +0000

I wonder how much of that IDC number is just Microsoft OEM software deals. That’s an anomaly that should probably be removed from any analysis of the software markets in general.

Comment on A hard problem worth solving by Tateru Nino

Tateru Nino — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:34:03 +0000

Some slight hair splitting. I’m most familiar with the terms organic/inorganic in software engineering holding other definitions.
Software that has “grown (often uncontrollably) beyond the original design and is in desperate need of refactoring/redesign/redevelopment” is (in my experience) referred to as organic, whereas software that remains faithful to its design is “inorganic”.

Thus you start with an organic piece of software designed to meet a set of needs, and implement it. Then it grows ‘organically’ in response to user/customer feedback, bizarre and unanticipated bugfixes, tactical business threats, until it essentially becomes more expensive to continue to maintain than to discard and redesign for actual current needs (and probably performs quite poorly as a result).

Aside from the minor quibble about terminology (which might well cause some confusion), you make a very good point.

Comment on Mobiguous company names by Thijs

Thijs — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:12:04 +0000

mossolution does already excist in the Netherlands.

Comment on More Hazel video by Grandma Ba-ba

Grandma Ba-ba — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:53:40 +0000

AS USUAL – absolutely adorable. Lova-lova