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Gapingvoid Got It Wrong

by Sam Ramji on April 19, 2007

A few key people in the industry (Stephen Walli and Matt Asay in particular) pointed out the flaws in Hugh Macleod’s strip on Open Source. I like the Blue Monster idea (there’s some real passion in that art) but this one missed the mark, because Hugh framed the issue wrong. Hugh is clearly a smart guy and is in the process of learning about this field of software. The resulting discussion on Hugh... more

• Thursday, April 19, 2007
• in: Community
• Sam Ramji

Socialpoint - Socialtext on Sharepoint a conversation with Ross Mayfield

by Sam Ramji on November 01, 2006

I got to spend an hour with Ross Mayfield (founder of Socialtext) today. We talked about a range of things, from open source calculators (WikiCalc) to the future of Sharepoint as a platform for open source development and the shift in Microsoft's approach to open source. Ross graciously gave us an extra fifteen minutes to capture part of our conversation on video...... more

• Wednesday, November 01, 2006
• in: Media
• Sam Ramji