Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Red Hat's William Henry on grid, containers, and orchestration

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William Henry is a senior distinguished engineer at Red Hat who has been involved with open source since Slackware. Part of this involvement...
Sunday, July 26, 2020

50 authors, 50 science fiction stories shorter than novels

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See the updated 80 author version. I've been playing around with re-reading favorite science fiction short stories while also seeing if...
Monday, June 01, 2020

Podcast: Was open source inevitable? (Part 4)

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EPISODE 4: HOW OPEN SOURCE WON—OR DID IT? In this four-part miniseries within the Innovate @Open podcast, we explore the alternative histo...
Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Podcast: Was open source inevitable? (Part 3)

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EPISODE 3: OPERATING SYSTEMS FOR A HORIZONTAL STACK In this four-part miniseries within the Innovate @Open podcast, we explore the alterna...
Monday, May 18, 2020

Podcast: Was open source inevitable (Part 2)

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EPISODE 2: THE FOUNDATIONS OF A MOVEMENT In this four-part miniseries within the Innovate @Open podcast, we explore the alternative histor...
Monday, May 11, 2020

Podcast: Was open source inevitable? (Part 1)

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EPISODE 1: SETTING THE STAGE In this four-part miniseries within the Innovate @Open podcast, we explore the alternative histories of open ...
Thursday, April 02, 2020

Podcast: If Linux didn't exist, would we have had to invent it?

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I've been working on a multi-part podcast series that considers the question "Was open source inevitable?" through intervie...
Tuesday, March 17, 2020

A new project: Was open source inevitable?

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Last fall, I listened to the episode  Was the Protestant Reformation Inevitable? on the Tides of History podcast. It turns out to be a fasc...
Monday, March 16, 2020

Podcast: Hyperledger's Arnaud Le Hors on best practices for Technical Steering Committees

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Arnaud Le Hors is the chair of the Hyperledger Project's technical steering committee (TSC). Earlier this month, I sat down with Arnau...
Saturday, March 14, 2020

Favorite Science Fiction Short Stories: First Draft

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I've been playing around with re-reading favorite science fiction short stories and seeing if there's anything that has managed ...