Just ordered myself a Sharp Zaurus C760. Very gorgeous machine.
I was dissapointed with the battery life of my 5000D Sharp, but apart from that I liked it. This new machine is hopefully going to find a special place.
Can finally talk about this 
The company I work for, Genscape, have been bought by a company called ‘GFI’. Two stories online about it:
Upshot for me is that as the new owners bought out our options, I have some toy money. So #1 toy is…. [next blog]
So…the great news…James Strachan, Geir Magnusson Jr and Richard Monson-Haefel. I’m sure lots of blogs have handled this already.
My comments:
I like:
I like the name.
I like that Brian Behlendorf and Greg Stein [neither a Java developer] are highly influential on the mail list at the moment. This is a great thing to see.
I like the huge number of people involved already from various open source projects.
Non-profit open source. It’s more ethically correct.
I don’t like:
The decision to send out a big announcement on the project before it was released. An enormous number of people are saying “Please mail me with details” and “Count me in”. That’s not how open source communities work.
Licensing issues These are going to bite.
Secrecy. Wish I’d heard about the creation of this, but it was occuring on Apache member lists.
The JBoss angle:
The bad dictators of the world. Good open source is about benevolent dictators I believe. The bad ones are the ones who get religious [even if they may suceed in getting good open source code out there]. Stallman and Fleury definitely both fit into this category for me. Their approach to marketing and management makes hearing them distasteful to me. Ballmer is the same way. Aggressive, religious zealotism.
They make open source less enjoyable.
all I got was this very cool t-shirt
