http://www.cocomment.com/comments/dahowlett Copyright 2007 coComment.com 2009-11-23T18:40:08.886+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/images/logo4rss.gif http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=dahowlett&conv=449001&comment_id=8076817 Dennis Howlett Clay precedes his remarks by saying OSS has been a huge success. I read his take as based on a statistical comparison with the total number of projects compared with those that are successful using the criteria stated. It is measurable given the Sourceforge data. I agree it could have been worded better. I think the point he makes is a good one though that OSS operates like a form of Darwinian natural selection. Although that metaphor is capable of being argued as well. It would have been interesting to see him argue this from a Long Tail perspective. If that's possible. 2007-02-02T17:31:10.379+01:00 2007-02-02T17:31:10.379+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=dahowlett&conv=428592&comment_id=7302171 Dennis Howlett I REALLY want to hear about that! 2007-01-25T07:46:25.239+01:00 2007-01-25T07:46:25.239+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=dahowlett&conv=425835&comment_id=7198448 Dennis Howlett Geoff: Far be it for me to be a professional 'agony aunt' but there comes a point where most people realise that being a wage slave is a thoroughly miserable idea. It's at that point they either break out into Global Microbrand territory or gravitate upwards towards The Borg aka Big4. Your choice my friend. 2007-01-24T05:06:33.244+01:00 2007-01-24T05:06:33.244+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=dahowlett&conv=21284&comment_id=33692 Dennis Howlett There is a much more important issue here. I've read both sides of the 'argument' and they read like two strangers trying to tell the same story. Both cannot be right. There doesn't seem to be any basis for agreement. If, as seems the case, this has become a legal wrangle, then the worst possible place to try and rsolve it is in the court of public opinion. And in that sense, I'd say both sides have made grave errors of judgment. Grays by pushing it into the public domain in the first place and Winer for responding. How on earth that mess gets sorted out is anyones guess. The real winners will likely be the lawyers. As usual in he said/he said arguments. 2006-03-17T01:52:50.074+01:00 2006-03-17T01:52:50.074+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=dahowlett&conv=1746&comment_id=6754 text Another thing - yes unmoderated comments appear in your sidebar. That needs resolving mthinks. Also, they could do with truncating comments - too much clutter in the sidebar. 2006-02-12T06:42:49.494+01:00 2006-02-12T06:42:49.494+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=dahowlett&conv=1746&comment_id=6752 text You're comment over at the CoCo forum about potential libel raises an interesting point worth pursuing here. Where a site is moderated, the comment appears in RSS/Co-Comment but is held in the moderation queue of the relevant site. This is barmy. If the site owner is concerned about potential libel, defamation and so on then I'm agin a comment appearing in my sidebar (for example) prior to moderation. And that's before we talk about spam. I'll likely take Co-Comment off my sidebar pretty soon and just keep RSS. 2006-02-12T06:37:51.089+01:00 2006-02-12T06:37:51.089+01:00