Archive 23. July 2007

David Carr: Deadlines, Overtime and Undertime - what overtime really does in a programming project. Would be nice if managers read that. But they have been ignoring "The Mythical Man Month" for several decades anyway ...

What Linspire Agreed To - "It's worse than Novell's, actually. It's worse than Tivo, in my book. I know some say that Tivo doesn't interfere with you modifying, as long as you give up using the modified software on Tivo hardware. To me, that is a penalty not contemplated by GPLv2, because if you buy a Tivo, it's because you wanted to use the software with the Tivo hardware, but with Linspire's agreement, you have to give up pretty much all your GPL freedoms, as far as I can make out, and more. And what do you get in return for giving up everything? True Type fonts, Windows Media 10, DVD playback, patent coverage..."