A bondi-blue tux, please. Buy one for Grandma, so she can run a /. service for her Sewing Circle/Political Action Committee. Link
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1998 Linux Timeline
December 24, 1998 – 12:00 am
or “The Penguin’s Progress” Linux’s progress in the past year, from perception as a hobbyist’s toy to acceptance as a production OS, is one of my favorite stories. Link
Stallman finaly makes his appearance in the User Friendly GNU Saga
December 19, 1998 – 12:00 am
But it’s just a cameo. Link
The IE Logo Decoded
December 14, 1998 – 12:00 am
The GNUwars saga continues at “User Friendly.” Link
Ted Nelson’s Zig Zag
December 11, 1998 – 12:00 am
Hypertext inventor Ted Nelson was out at Stanford today for a talk where he ranted about the sorry state of the web and demonstrated Zig Zag, a way of organizing information. I need to see if I can get it to run under MacPerl. If not, then it’s time to get a Linux box. Nelson [...]
Mexico says ‘si’ to Open Source
December 7, 1998 – 12:00 am
This article is mainly another briefing on the Open Source meme, but is worthwhile for this piece of information: The Mexican government, for example, last month announced that it will install Linux in 140,000 computer labs in Mexican elementary and secondary schools. Government officials estimated that Windows licenses for all these labs would cost them [...]
The Dumbing Down of Programming
November 24, 1998 – 12:00 am
This article resonated with me after three of us spent a collective half-day trying to understand exactly what the design time controls in MS InterDev 6 are trying to do. Another developer emails the warning “Run Away from the Tool!” Better to write our own VB given that Active X Data Objects are already an [...]
An Interview with Free Software Founder Richard Stallman [ via Slashdot ]
November 12, 1998 – 12:00 am
Stallman started working on a open-source UNIX back in the 80′s. Much of Linux and NetBSD inherited from his work. This interview outlines the factions on the free software/open source community as well. I have a great meeting Stallman story that I’ll relate later. Link