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Dr Dobbs: Ousterhout on Open Source and its relationship to commercial software. This is more of an evangelistic piece than a thorough analysis. Open source is the Trend of the Year, as Java was, or object oriented programming a few years back. When it comes down to it, people will compare products to other products. For development environments some portion of the source will be given away and others will be kept private. Our cone is inverted the other way. We developed a kernel and editors that are private, but we keep piling on free source code to show people how to apply it. There is no purity possible as long as Intel and Motorola don't publish the source for their chips. We'll eventually completely figure this one out, but by the time we do there will be something else for people (ie reporters) to be hysterical about. Frontier 6 users, there's a new release of whois.root. Bernie DeKoven: Technography and Outlines. New easy-to-remember address for our SlashDot Story List page. MSNBC: Triumphant Balloonists Land in Egypt. SJ Merc: Stalking the Drunken College Student. "I don't think," says Dave Berman, an IBM spokesman from San Jose, "we're going to be giving away free beer." Why not? NY Times: Product Promos in Math Textbooks. "The best-selling packaged cookie in the world is the Oreo cookie," it begins. "The diameter of an Oreo cookie is 1.75 inches. Express the diameter of an Oreo cookie as a fraction in simplest form." 7/4. MacWEEK: Mac OS X Server Apps Multiply. But can they express the diameter of an Oreo cookie? MacWEEK survey on PDF delivery of news.
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