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| Tuesday, February 20, 2001 |
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Calling for an erratorium
I was in a nice, let's-all-hug mood this morning, thinking I could bring some peace to a place where two groups find it easier to talk about each other than to each other. So I wrote this rambling think-out-loud thing, and went off to the next break-out session. Now I come back to check my email and find I'm getting royally roasted. By my friends. From both sides.
Well, fuck.
Okay. Here's where I was wrong:
- "Commercial" and "proprietary" are not the same. Seems I implied that they were.
- There is no DMZ. I chose that acronym ("DeMilitarized Zone") to indicate a conversational space that should be safe from hostilities. It isn't, obviously. Bad metaphor.
- Writing software is not the same as manufacturing it. I didn't mean to imply that it was. I was only trying to make some points within Eric Raymond's sale value vs. use value construction. He equates software-for-sale with manufacture.
- Plenty of companies that sell software also give source code away for the common good. This has been the case since long before Open Source became a buzzphrase.
There's more, but I'm out of time.
Proof that blogging is a hard habit to break
I didn't have time, but I just took some anyway and wrote this. Hope it makes sense. I don't have time to proofread it. But I think it matters, so there ya go.
All work and some play makes Doc a full boy
We got in around 11 last night. Creepy smell of brush fires in the air. This morning the highway we came in on is closed, somewhere. Not sure.
The luggage finally came a few minutes ago.So I'm off to the conference. Joyce and Jeffrey are off to fun here at Disney World (hopefully not to BrushFireLand).
Wish us fun.
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