Came across this article on /. (Slashdot | The Stigma of a Tech Support Background) and it got me thinking about the person’s problem and some advice I’ve given a some recent grads that I have worked with.   As I see it, the biggest problem a hiring manager has with someone straight out of college [...]

Enter The JBoss Matrix C’mon Mr. Fleury, really?  People are stealing BSD/Apache code?  How can one steal something that we are giving away?  That’s like saying I am stealing air every time I breathe.  If anything, more people steal (L)GPL code, if you assume the notion of theft applies at all, given that they use [...]

What Would Microsoft Do with Yahoo’s Zimbra? – Yahoo! News Or, perhaps this is Microsoft’s “out”…  Basic premise, MS buys Y! which is doing a lot more to support Open Source these days.  MS has always been viewed as anti Open Source because of the Linux debacle, among other things.  Buying Y! gives them a [...]

Google Leads Attack on Microsoft-Yahoo Merger – Yahoo! News In a Google Blog post Sunday, David Drummond, Google’s chief legal officer, called on regulators to examine “thoroughly” the questions raised by Microsoft’s offer, while reminding everyone that Google stands for “openness and innovation.” What do people think?  Is Google open?  My gut says no, but [...]

BackwardsCompatibility – Lucene-java Wiki Hmmm, so I have been pondering this for a while and don’t quite know a good solution…  So help would be appreciated. As an active developer of Lucene, we have pretty strict rules about Backwards Compatibility, as evidenced by the link given above.  For the most part, what this translates to, [...]

So the running joke in open source is that anytime you need to know how something works, you should just go look at the code.  Thus, the documentation in the large majority of open source projects really sucks.  Now, I have been a long time user and contributer to open source and have always gotten [...]