Maybe it’s a coincidence but this week has seen evidence of tension between commercial open source vendors and elements of the open source user community. Matt Asay stirred up something of a hornet’s nest with his post questioning how open source vendors can find ways of encouraging users to contribute either code of cash in return for free software

One exciting recent bit of news is all about Asustek extending the reach of Splashtop and putting it on pretty much every motherboard. This means that tens of millions of PCs are expected to have Linux installed down at the core, essentially (yet arguably) running it as the ‘default’ operating system.

Today is our anniversary, guys. Unbelievably, Groklaw is five years old today. And we're still standing, still here, still working together. I know. Amazing. Who knew we'd still be together after five years?

"This document collects together into one definition all the specs that together form the current state of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). The primary audience is CSS implementors, not CSS authors, as this definition includes modules by specification stability, not Web browser adoption rate..."

"...This document specifies usage scenarios for full-text queries as part of XML Query [XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language] and XPath [XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0]..."

Sometimes, people do such stupid things that words almost fail me. That’s the case with a Debian ‘improvement’ to OpenSSL that rendered this network security program next to useless in Debian, Ubuntu and other related Linux distributions.

"Django now supports Model Inheritance, and one of the coolest new opportunities that model inheritance brings is the possibility of the creation of mixins, so in this post I'll walk through the steps I went through to create some simple examples.

Yesterday Google celebrated the opening of a larger Cambridge, Massachusetts office, which takes up a substantial part of a building right next to the Kendall/MIT subway stop in the higher-than-high tech area of East Cambridge. I got a look at their new Friend Connect service (covered in a related Radar blog) and heard some fascinating comments that the staff kindly let me reproduce here.