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Questionable journalism
Dana Blankenhorn writes about the financel perfomance of VA Software for ZDnet web site. Dana uses the company Ok but not bright numbers as an excuse to raise the question whether Open Source companies have a valid financial grounds. That's a very interesting question – there is just one little problem: despite owning the ticker [...]
It's a small (virtual) world
This post is in English, because it concerns, among others, none Hebrew speaking people. The story goes like this:
A few weeks ago, a company far far away has come up to us with a rather unique request. What the request was I cannot tell you, and it's not really important. Suffice it to say that [...]
I read it for the Perl modules
Playboy has a FOSS mirror site. I find this very amusing. Thank you shlomif for sharing the discovery.
KinnerNet
I'm sitting in the well equipped (4 PS2/Xbox, 8 PC running Ubunto Linux, 1 arcade machine and several laptops) computer lounge of KinnerNet, the do it yourself geek-fest of Yosi Vardi and friends on the bedside of the KinnerNet, to which I was invited (thanks Ido & Eli . It's a pretty cool place [...]
CORE Values
על הקשר בין עלות התיקון לאיכות המוצר ומה כל זה קשור לקוד פתוח
Buy out, buy in
On Wednesday we have a meeting with some guys that might want to buy us out. They're are a BIG outfit, 4k people and NASDAQ traded stock – that kind of big. I don't expect much – I think they think we will go for chips and fish, and we're not going to, but it's [...]
OLS 2005
I have just received word that my paper, "Building Murphy compatible Embedded Linux systems", was accepted to OLS 2005. I didn't really expect this to happen and it does post some "interesting" logistic
problems with our new baby due and the financial aspects of it but I'm quite pleased with myself. Anyone planning to go OLS [...]
fork
In about 3.5 month I'm going to become a father to a little girl. I haven't decided yet if I want it to happen Right Now (TM) or be happy to have it happen in a couple of extra months. I do wait to it but I sometime ask myself if I'm really ready
to be [...]
Asterisk and money
Tomorrow I'll be giving yet another lecture at Haifux about Asterisk. It's basically an updated re-run of the lecture on the same topic I gave at Telux.
Updated, I say, because I've managed to do some work since the last lecture and the really good news is that Mark Spencer
has accepted my patches into the Asterisk [...]
Friday Evening at the Benyossefs
It's Friday evening. Me and the wife just came back from the gym and we're both sitting in the study and clicking away on
our respective computers (mental note: we really should get Sharona a laptop or something). We have about an hour until we're supposed to go to a still unknown restaurant for dinner with [...]
