OSS is NIH. Oren Eini on the chasm between Microsoft and open source: “Returning to the real world, the OSS community in .Net biggest weakness is that the OSS community doesn’t include Microsoft itself. And no, CodePlex doesn’t really count. CodePlex doesn’t bring Microsoft and OSS togetherer in the sense that it is not a place from which things go into the CLR or into the standard tool set.”
So lets embrace and extinguish. Separately, Neil McAllister is all too ready to declare Mono dead. I doubt it, but then Microsoft is not above killing its own marketshare. Premature or predicting?
Balancing act. Ryan Baker notes that simplicity is not that simple after all: “The true path seeks to remove the unnecessary or accidental complexity, while simultaneously adding essential features and complexity.”
Blogging years shorter than Internet years? Steve Rubel points out that blogging might have reached saturation. But what about acceptance you ask? Doing good, thank you for asking.
Binary Sudoku. Easy to learn, hard to master.
