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| Wednesday, July 25, 2001 |
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Instant, but not always obvious 
| | Clay Shirky just told me that XNS.org uses Jabber for its IM transport. So many of Jabber's successes are quiet sub-radar things like this. Interesting. |
Report from paradise
| | Here's the first installment of my bloglike long-form series of reports from the conferences I'm attending in San Diego. For some reason the dateline isn't there. It was actually written prior to the conference, but not submitted and published until today. Whatever: it vets some of my thinking about what I'm looking to get out of these conferences. I'm hoping to get Day Two out tonight, toward the end of Day Three. Complicated, but what the hell. |
Cluerolling
| | David Weinberger is out with the latest JOHO (when it works the permanent link will be here), while Chris Locke is out with the latest EGR. Some nice ink for Chris's next book (along with Cluetrain) is here. |
Yeah? Well fork you.
| | Interesting conversation with Dave and Craig at breakfast this morning. The two of them — both far more technical than I am — clued me in on what WSDL (Web Services Description Language) was all about. I gather it's an exclusive play by Microsoft and IBM to describe the way "web services" relate using XML. It static stuff, and excludes both XML-RPC and various dynamic Web scripting languages such as Python, Perl and Tcl. If it succeeds, it will have the effect of forking the Web by dividing its developer camps (among other things). |
| | My instinct: it won't work, for the simple reason that it was developed, as Dave says, "behind closed doors." It excludes independent developers, a population that includes both small commercial developers and the whole open source community. In other words, way too much of the Web's most numerous and energetic authors. |
Dramatic License
| | Borland's release of a GPL'd Kylix (its "Open Edition") is getting very positive play on Slashdot. This is consistent with an increasingly common statement I've been hearing at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference: that the best strategy for companies that want to play the commercial open source game is to release your public code (the stuff you want to ubiquitize) on the GPL, while also releasing your private code (the stuff you want to sell) with a restrictive license of your own choosing. Borland's is called the No Nonsense License. It's description of how the two work together is one of the clearest I've seen. I just wish they'd put links in their text instead of spelling them out, requiring copying and pasting. |
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