Nothing and Some More

Interview with Sleepycat President and CEO, Michael Olson (via LWN)

Second, Sleepycat owns the intellectual property in Berkeley DB. Unlike many other projects, there's no developer community outside the company that's contributing code to Berkeley DB. We do the development. In some rare cases, we do get code contributed from a customer. When that happens, we require that ownership of that code be transferred to Sleepycat before we'll incorporate it into our source tree. If we allowed third party contributions that we didn't own, we would not have the standing we need to cut proprietary licenses for our paying customers.
We vastly prefer to make a living off of software licensing, not services. In fact, three quarters of the money we make comes from licensing, and only a quarter from support and related services. Given that, it's much more in Sleepycat's interest to have our high-powered developers working on features that we can go sell to lots of customers, rather than projects that we can sell to just one or two.
Certainly companies care about control and visibility into the development process. Because they get the complete source code for Berkeley DB, our customers know they don't need to talk to us about new ports or custom features. Whether they ever do ports or custom features, both matter for planning reasons. During development, the fact that they've got our source code means that writing to the APIs, figuring out how they work, and debugging problems is much simpler. That speeds up development, and that's valuable to customers.

Taking the Bazaars out of the Cathedral. And a last one A strategic comparison of Windows vs. Unix

Negroponte interview (Strangely enough, the original interview on the BBC website is REMOVED.)

Why Encryption Doesn't Help

Shag Art (via Kooky Mojo)

50000 words to write. Start now.

Halloween from All Allow Even, all Saints' eve: the evening of 31 October, the eve of All Saints' Day.

Cuentos para el Dia de los muertos. I like calaveras.

Blogrolling or Hypertext with Characters ?

Un frances esta tranquilamente tomando su petit dejeuner cuando un tipico norteamericano, comiendo chicle, se sienta a su lado.
El frances ignora despreciativamente al yanquiman que, no muy contento con eso, trata de meterle conversación.
Usteid se coume todou el bread? - pregunta el americano.
Mais pog supuesto - contesta el frances con mal modo.
Nosotrous no - dice el compatriota del tio Sam. Nosotrous solo comeimous la miga dei adentrou. La partei de afuera la poneimous en un container, la reciclamous, la transformamous en croissants y la exportamous a Francia.

El frances escucha en silencio, imperturbable.
El americano insiste: Y ustedeis se coumen la marmelade with el bread?
Pog supuesto - contesta nuevamente el frances
Nosotrous no - dice americano. Nosotrous al breakfast comemos fruta fresh y poneimous la cascara y las peipas en un container, las reciclamous, la transformamous en marmelade y la exportamous a Francia.

El frances ya un tanto alterado pregunta: Y Uds. que hacen avec les condoms despues de usaglos?
Lous tiramous a la basura, of course.
Nosotgos no. Nosotgos los ponemos en un contenedog, los reciclamos, los transfogmamos en chicle y los exportamos a los Etats Unis.