The times they are a-changin’
Yochai Benkler: “I find myself talking to all sorts of weird hackers one day and chief economists of major corporations the next day, and they’re all interested in similar things.”
Ian Murdock’s Weblog
on emerging platforms, the open source business opportunity, and the commoditization of software
February 25th, 2007 at 9:48am
Talking about corporations remind me of your famous “Installing software on Linux” posts, Part I&II:
The mailing list is already dead, and after I spend some time at the rpm IRC channel it looks to me that at least the rpm developers are not willing tom implement anything like the mentioned API at all.
Do you have a better idea to solve that issue?
February 25th, 2007 at 10:08am
Paul Nasrat (Red Hat), Michael Schroeder (SUSE), and Seth Vidal (Fedora/yum) were all at the Packaging Summit, and they were all willing. Give it some time. These things don’t happen overnight. -ian
February 25th, 2007 at 11:14am
I have a degree in computer science and a degree in economics, and I am finding that there is a lot of cross-pollination of ideas in my head…
freedom.. motivation.. risk.. progress.. it all happens at the crossroads of technology and economics.
-Corey
February 25th, 2007 at 3:03pm
@Ian: I really hope that you are right, I haven’t heard or read any positive comments to that topic from any package developer… :(