I was pointed to Eric Florenzano’s Programming Meme today. I decided to take up the challenge with a language I’ve always wanted to learn: Prolog! A few hours later, and I got something that works. I can’t say it’s at all elegant, but it’s late and...

The U.S. government is definitively over open source software fear. First, though it’s no real surprise, they are switching whitehouse.gov to use Drupal. You probably heard about it on Boing Boing already. It’s not that big a surprise, because...

Paul Ramsey did an excellent keynote at FOSS4G on the subject of the profitability of open source software. In it, he points out that the relevant produced unit of the software market is the “Whole Product”–a package that includes both software and...

Everyblock, the successful, Knight Foundation funded, open source hyperlocal journalism site, was recently acquired by MSNBC.com. This has raised some eyebrows. First, there is the question of “whether it is ethical to take foundation money and turn...

The open source movement has trouble articulating a coherent politics. On the one hand, we have people like Matt Asay. Asay does a good job of making open source palatable to the mainstream business world. But he depoliticizes it so aggressively...