open source developers

Datamation: Open source developers talk about the stress of coding in the Linux world.

Linux Planet: This past week new development in the Linux kernel as well as distros and desktops once again proved that the summer is not a vacation time for open source developers.

On July 15, 2003, the Mozilla Foundation burst forth from Netscape, and in one fell swoop both created and cemented its preeminent position as the champion of The Open Web.

About a week ago I stumbled upon this post by Syp about the reception of betas in gaming.

It sums it up quite clearly, when you release a new game (especially, but not limited to MMOs) - the beta phase has to be awesome.

Unless you're working on a major intellectual property (like Warhammer Online) or got a huge fan base (Blizzard) you can make or break your influx of users with the beta of your shiny new game.

There are plenty of bad things in the world. But I guess there is nothing that has such a drastic and dangerous impact on my life that software patents.

If patents are good thing in other industries can be discussed, but in the software industry its a clear cut thing: they hurt innovation, they hurt small businesses and they scare the shit out of me.

And if you are a software developer, they should scare the shit out of you too!

Cyber Cynic: "I love it. KDE 3.x, which has always remained my favorite Linux desktop interface, is making a come back.

A tiny group of open-source developers from Pearson Computing is trying to bring KDE 3.x from the grave in a project that they're calling Trinity."

Network World: "DJ Walker-Morgan over on the Open H has a post up saying that the open source developer community should thank Apple for raising the competitive bar and in using some open source technology in its products.

I say rubbish!"

Slashdot alerts us to a new effort to create a "Defensive Patent License" (DPL) as a defensive mechanism for open source developers.

The idea is a bit more advanced than your every day patent pools (even the defensive ones).

A few days ago I announced my retirement from PHP core via twitter and the internals mailinglist.

Actually I have always felt a bit weird calling myself being part of "PHP core" since in all the years I have never added any code to core, actually I have only removed some code as it was being moved to PECL.