JP just wrote in to let me know that the T-Dose 2008 CFP has been extended. So there is still time to send in your abstracts
Oh right .. I was expecting to much from you folks.
So lemme translate, Jean-Paul Saman, one of the T-Dose organizers, wrote me this morning to let the world know that he is still accepting proposals for talks at T-Dose , The Technical Dutch Open Source Event which will take place on 25 and 26 October 2008 at the …
[Read more]JP just wrote in to let me know that the T-Dose 2008 CFP has been extended. So there is still time to send in your abstracts
Oh right .. I was expecting to much from you folks.
So lemme translate, Jean-Paul Saman, one of the T-Dose organizers, wrote me this morning to let the world know that he is still accepting proposals for talks at T-Dose , The Technical Dutch Open Source Event which will take place on 25 and 26 October 2008 at the …
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Uh oh. It seems my blog posting frequency is dropping even below my modest minimum target of one per month. I didn't post anything at all in my summer vacation. Well, a small child plus a house to re-decorate does take its share of energy I guess.
I thought I'd still follow up with were we left before holidays:
What I'm left with is the question: Are we there? Is this it? Is all that is left just some minor cleaning up after the big battle has already been won? I think it might be. For me, somehow the day I read the news of the release of Symbian as Open Source marks the milestone when it was clear that we had "won". [...]
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Lukas Kahwe Smith has an awesome post titled "Open
Source is not making enough rich people richer" .
Indeed, there is much talk that the VC's , the Investors and
different others aren't seeing the big money fast enough,
according to them that is.
Does that mean that the open source industry is going bad ? Does
that mean you can't make a living when working in the Open Source
industry ?
Absolutely not, as he points out there are uncountable people gaining a good living with Open Source, developers working on the different projects as their day job, system administrators managing open source platforms. We are helping out customers to implement Open Source and Free Software. And there are numerous other Drupal, Mysql, Xen, shops out there. Some have their own open source products and create a business on top of …
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