The debian project’s secretary has resigned and all manner of flame is propagating on the debian lists. This time though the rest of the world and some debian people are pulling their hair out with worry. There is nothing to worry about, this is debian, this is how it works, enjoy the show. Then get [...]
There is a new conference afoot, to be held the first time next year in Kista, Stockholm. It seems to aimed at CIOs and those who have budgetary control over software purchases for the public sector in the cities and towns of Sweden. Welcome to the world Forum Open Sweden.
FSF looks to be turning up the heat on the networking giant.
In the United States there has been a good deal of hand-wringing over education. One of the chief concerns is how does a huge, diverse country like the United States improve Science and Math scores which are crucial to economic competitiveness and research. George Bush instituted some reforms that favored standardized testing but those may [...]
The ‘platform’ on which you do your computing work is becoming increasingly irrelevant. It matters from a licensing perspective whether the code you have just written is running on linux or proprietary software, but it does not matter to the user if that machine is running as a virtual instance or not, as long as [...]
I am happy to say F{N}OSS has been a big success. Nearly 5 thousand hits in its first month with virtually no publicity at all, and growing. F{N}OSS has bloggers from all of the Nordic countries, including Iceland, and visitors from all of them as well. The largest grouping of bloggers and visitors comes from [...]
‘Fika’ is one of those words in Swedish that has no equivalent in English. ‘Coffee-break’ doesn’t even come close to describing the central place fika has in Swedish culture. It is a part of European cafe-culture that Anglophones have never really understood. In any case, there will be a fika, a Christmas themed fika, with [...]
The first one is by George Soros at The New York Review of Books: The crisis and what to do about it. He is a stakeholder in the status quo so his ultimate conclusion is that we should not over-regulate. That sounds pretty ordinary advice but it is a cogent analysis nonetheless. The second one [...]