open source model

Netstat -vat: The open source model works. Just because one company kills a project, doesn't mean the project is actually dead.

Handling the "favorites of the week" post this week is Karl, one of our prolific commenter's who's known for calmly responding to questionable claims from other commenters with thorough, detailed insights and a firm grasp of the law and case law.

Simon Phipps, on the Google dropping H.264 from Chrome debacle:

But all these points are also true of Adobe Flash.

So why not drop that too? Is it not hyprocritical to keep it? If you’re an absolutist, probably yes. But there’s a calculation going on here about steering the web into the level plains of truly open standards.

H.264 support in the <video> tag is not the same as Flash support.

IT News Today: "Most people would believe that the moon exploding would be a much more likely scenario than Microsoft changing it's business model."

The humble penguin is mascot of quite a treasure.

According to an updated Linux Foundation study, to build from scratch today, the Linux kernel would cost $1.4 billion; a typical Linux distro, $1.2 billion.

In addition, Fedora 9, the current community version of Red Hat’s operating system, would cost a whopping $10.8 billion to replicate in current dollars.