Achieving Vendor Lock-In Through Open Source
There seems to be a renewed interest from proprietary software vendors in the use open source to create vendor lock in. This week, add Microsoft’s Silverl...
Author: John
Slingshot – lightweight apollo?
Today Joyent announced the public release of Slingshot, a framework for (their words) obliterating the distinction between the web and the desktop. Slingshot le...
The Real Trouble With Twitter – There’s no There, There
(Image from Darren Greaves (Boncey) via Creative Commons license) I’ve been thinking a lot about – and playing around with – Twitter. These Dy...
Creative Commons by default
(Via Lawrence Lessig) Sony’s new competitor to YouTube, eyeVio, will license content users upload under a Creative Commons Attribution license by default....
Open Source Flex (MPL)
<Update> It’s worth taking a look at Ed Burnette’s take on this at ZDNet: “Adobe keeps Flash, Flex close to the vest.” Although I ...