Archive for July, 2002
One factor in the choice of registrars is going to be
public support. So I'd like you to add your voice. Go to
www.invisible.net and click on the blue dot. This will take you to a page
at not.invisible.net where you can add your comments, or get more
information about other ways you can provide support to the bid by the
Internet Multicasting Service and the Internet Software Consortium
(both nonprofits) to manage the .org registry. [
.org is a public trust.
]
July 29th, 2002
The final report of the FLOSS survey and study sponsored by the IST program is now on-line at: http://floss1.infonomics.nl/finalreport/
This report contains new statistical information about usage,
creation and economics of free / open source software, as well as
policy surveys and recommendations, mostly related to Europe.
It's quite a lengthy report, packed with some quite interesting
results, worth having a look at it. For instance the use of Open Source
Software by country: Germany 43.7%, UK 31.5%, Sweden 17.7 %. The Open
Source activities of the 25 major software companies: 32% major OS
development activities (IBM, HP, Compaq, SAP, CA, Hitachi, Sun, ...),
12% small OS projects (EDS, BMC, Adobe, ...) and 52% no visible OS
projects (Microsoft, Oracle, ...)
July 19th, 2002
So really, why is this that important ?
I think this is the best explanation of why it is so important, in an mail to Joi Ito, Carl said it well.
"Our proposal for .org is not only the only pure non-profit bid,
it is the only one that treats the .org registry a a public trust.
We're proposing a fully-open, transparent operation: all statistics,
finances, and source code will be published. We consider .org to be a
public trust, not a public trough: that means that all revenues will be
devoted to the .org domain and to public infrastructure.
We'll also make some real changes to how this crucial piece of
public infrastructure runs. For example: our performance specifications
meet or exceed each of the other bids. (E.g., zone files for the DNS
will be published in 5 minutes or less in contrast to the current 24
hours.) We'll be deploying secure DNS. We've got some advanced
development work already published that shows how small namespaces
(e.g., personal namespaces like Whois) can be changed.
Our team has been doing this for 10 years+. In contrast to the
other bids, ours is about people. We're personally signing up to run
.org, not promising that some newly-formed organization or some opaque
MIS staff will do this.
Bottom line: a rock-solid public infrastructure based on our
extensive experience doing this. Most importantly: the first truly open
and transparent registry. It doesn't matter if you think there should
be a million TLD's or ICANN should be abolished or whatever: the first
step is to create a reference implementation so everybody knows how
registries should operate. We're proposing to run and then document a
best current practices registry."
July 16th, 2002
Spread the word, make things happen!
Internet is like my second country (or maybe the first?), I consider
its presence and existence vital, and so why would I let it's
government on some profit hungry corporate entity? Would you?
I see the IMS/ISC .org proposal
as a first step to normality not to mention that supporting, from the
revenue stream public interest projects is the *absolute right thing*.
Even if the IMS/ISC proposal is not the only proposal from a non-profit organization, I have been working with Carl and his team
for some time and I rarely have seen peoples so dedicated to the cause
of the Internet and the rights of regular peoples to knowledge and
information in any form, that's the main reason I choose to support his plan.
In case you share my views, don?t hesitate make things happen, you are a rightful citizen of a virtual country make your voice heard.
In case you are looking for more info:
July 15th, 2002
I’m a workalchoolic, I am one because, maybe, I like to be one. It is all I do, all I want. I wake up in the morning and I want to be in front of my computer, from Monday to Saturday and Sunday.
Still, working or just lurking on the Net doesn’t give me that plus of excitement as sometimes used, maybe I’m just getting old or something. So, today I just realized what I do. I buy things on line, new Visor, laptop, keyboard, mouse wheel, midi keyboard, books, and so on. On line is important, maybe just because the delivery will be somewhere in the future, an exciting moment. Pathetic way of getting excitement in you life, still, it works you have a future path marked with spots, all you have to do is wait and at some point you will find a new exciting gadget to play with for a couple of days after which you start hunting for your next one.
I am happy with all this, except when some stupid ignorant are playing with your order and keep promising you new phony spots, just like now is happening.
July 12th, 2002
I want my company to be...
- somewhere people can innovate.
- somewhere that big and small ideas count
- somewhere Open Source isn't just a bunch of free tools to make use of
- somewhere that doesn't just make software - rather someone obsessed with
making damn fucking good software
- somewhere developers don't feel they are wasting their time keeping up
with the bleeding edge
- somewhere extensive knowledge of Ruby, Perl, Cocoa, Linux, HTML, CSS,
Crypto, Jini, Jabber, Technology X... doesn't seem useless
- somewhere developers look at each other's work and think "I'm
glad that exists"
- somewhere that developers talk to clients, clients talk back and both gain
from the experience
- somewhere everyone makes money, and has fun doing it
- somewhere that all the staff enjoy each other's company enough to go out
for a few beers on a Friday night
- somewhere developers do more than taking stuff out of a database and show
it on a screen, then take stuff from a form and put it in a database
- somewhere developers aren't forced to be managers, do sales or answer the
phone
- somewhere developers don't feel that in ten years time they'll be the
next generation of COBOL programmers
- somewhere where quality counts for something
- somewhere that people are proud to work
- somewhere people would still come to work if they never had to work another
day in their lives
(adapted from Charles Miller's
The Desktop Fishbowl and here are the ones I'm not sure about for
different reasons)
- somewhere 90% of the company isn't old and married
- somewhere that owning a copy of Stevens Unix Network Programming Volume
1 doesn't make you feel like an weirdo
[rebelutionary]
He he, welcome to my company 
and
don't look at the site yet, it will be revamped when the work of the last year and half
will go public 
(as in Apache license).
July 3rd, 2002
