Author Archives: Dan Gillmor

I ordered an Apple iBook in June from the Apple Store Web site, which told me it would arrive in 15 days. I checked the order status on the 15th day and learned it was “being assembled.” A phone call … Continue reading →

Craig Burton finds it ironic that I installed Virtual PC on my new Mac. “Virtual PC is a cool product as it lets you run Windows on your Mac,” he says. “Here is the irony. It comes with Windows. To … Continue reading →

SiliconValley.com: Microsoft says it doesn’t expect objections to delay Windows XP. Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer accused America Online of “limiting the marketplace” by insisting that computer manufacturers delete new Microsoft Internet features from its Windows XP operating system. So … Continue reading →

Nick Petreley: Microsoft’s Bait and Switch. I believe that Miguel de Icaza’s enthusiasm for porting the Microsoft .NET development environment to open source as a project called Mono to be naive and potentially dangerous to the open-source movement. Comments

Microsoft’s Craig Mundie is coming off almost as a statesman by comparison to his opponent in a debate this morning at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention. Red Hat’s Michael Tiemann used his talk to bait the Redmond bear, while Mundie … Continue reading →

People keep asking me what I think is the highlight of the O’Reilly Open Source Convention. I keep saying it’s the Unobainium. That’s Jim Gettys’ tongue-in-cheek name for the incredible — but, so far, unobtainable — item he’s showing folks … Continue reading →

Looks like the feds aren’t going to listen to reason in the case of Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov. The ElectronicFrontier Foundation met with the U.S. Attorney’s people in San Francisco, but found “no indication” that the Justice Department would drop … Continue reading →

I just ran into Mitch Kapor, who founded Lotus Development and, most recently, was a venture capitalist. His identification badge at the open source conference has a mysterious reference to an “Open Source Applications Foundation” he’s just started. He’s being … Continue reading →

Russell Nelson is sitting next to me, writing on a Compaq iPaq handheld computer. It’s running Linux, not Windows CE. See this page at handhelds.org for more information on how it’s done. Compaq is investing heavily in this platform, though … Continue reading →

The open source software community has been maturing in recent years. At a meeting yesterday one participant referred to a “traditional Linux company” without any irony. The opportunities for open source and free software remain huge. But so do the … Continue reading →