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Monday was a holiday here in Canada, so this morning has been doing the typical post-long-weekend email cleanup, blog reading and so on. Thanks to Bjorn, I came across this little gem: A cynic rips open source. I always enjoy contrarians, really I do. I’ve even been known to play...

So Bjorn and I just finished our JavaOne talk on Eclipse Europa. Attendance was good, and we had a lot of great questions after the talk. Last night was the Eclipse party, and I got a chance to catch up with a lot of folks that I hadn’t seen in...

I’ve been on the road for the past week and a half in Germany and Turkey. Last week was Wiesbaden for Eclipse Forum Europe, plus meetings in Frankfurt and Karlsruhe. EFE is an “embedded” conference, in the sense that it is embedded inside JAX, one of the largest (the largest?)...

I blogged before about Higgins, but I recently got an announcement from Lynn about an upcoming webinar and thought that I would pass it along. The Higgins Trust Framework Project: A New Way to Manage Identity Thursday, April 25, 2007 at 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 15:00 UTC/GMT Convert...

I’ve been watching the GPLv3 process since its inception, and I have to admit that I am getting rather disappointed with some of the dialogue surrounding it. At the risk of stating the obvious, the FSF is completely within its rights to change the GPL, and they deserve high praise...

Voting for the 2007 Eclipse Board of Directors positions is now open! There are many wonderful candidates for the positions, so please make sure to take the time to vote if you are a committer or add-in provider member. If you believe that you are entitled to vote and have...

In an interesting demonstration of the dangers of (what appears to be) auto-generating blog content, the site Modeling Agencies has picked up references to EclipseCon 2007. We do, of course, love to see viral marketing for EclipseCon and heartily encourage regular readers of this particular site to join us at...

My keynote last week at Open Souce Meets Business in Nuremburg was on a topic that I think bears repeating. Namely: what are the keys to Eclipse’s continuing growth and success? This is at the ten-thousand-foot-level I’m talking here, and definitely not with my technical hat on. This is about...

I ran across a post by Joel West which I both agreed and disagreed with. He was commenting on a previous post by Matt Asay on the importance of community to any organization that wants to portray itself as truly open source. The obligation of a real open source company...

For reasons that even I don’t completely understand, I have always had a soft spot in my heart for the Higgins project. Perhaps it’s because I am a bit of a closet libertarian. I strongly believe that control over your identity is a human right of the first order. The...