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7.2.2004
Upgrades on Open Source & Corporate Blogging
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In response to my note on corporate blogs, Australian software developer and open source skeptic Tony Healy points out that Microsoft has been sponsoring corporate blogging since January. Here is a list. Included are some of the company's serious software architects, such as Healey favorites Chris Pratley, Raymond Chen, Michael Howard(security czar), Don Box (famous COM czar).
Healey also suggests an answer to my puzzlement as to why Linux Australia is flying Lessig in to speak on the free trade agreement. He emails:
"I notice you draw attention to Australian open sourcers' emphasis on the DMCA. One plausible explanation is that Samba, the program that lets Linux computers exchange files with Microsoft networks, was developed in Australia. It is being funded now by IBM in a lab at Canberra.
"One of the prominent open source activists who appeared before the Senate inquiry into the FTA was a guy called Rusty Russell, who is on the committee of Linux Australia. Neither Rusty nor his submission mentioned the fact that he is an employee of IBM at the Samba lab. I mentioned this in my submission to the Senate inquiry.
"The ability to 'break into' Windows to read its network information was vital to developing Samba, and is part of the popular stories told about Samba. So breaking into other programs figures highly in the consciousness of the Australian open source movement."
posted by James DeLong : 7/2/2004 08:57:25 AM
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