On Sunday May 7, 2006, John Naughon of The Observer wrote a piece titled A problem too jumbo-sized for Bill Gates to solve?. In general, this was quite positive towards open source software, however there were a few points where John didn't fully appreciate or understand the the key differences between the Microsoft approach towards developing software, and the open source one. What follows is an email I sent to John clarifying a few of these differences.

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CIO Today ran a piece on open source software and included some comments from Forrester's Michael Goulde, who made some rather disparaging comments about OpenOffice.org. What follows is my response, sent to both Michael and the editors of CIO Today.

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The Age newspaper's IT section had a front-page article discussing a letter sent by a group of women researchers to Bill Gates about Microsoft's 2020 Science Group programme. In essence, the women were raising the issue that no women researchers were included in that group. I decided to write my own letter in response to some of these women researchers, pointing out that there may be better ways to harness womens' research energies towards a better world in 2020, than by aligning themselves to Microsoft.

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I recently read a piece by Christopher Koch in CIO magazine. It highlighted, to me, how far many in senior IT management positions have to go before they truly understand the benefits that the freedom inherent in open source software delivers to them. What follows is my email to Christopher outlining some of the business outcomes and advantages of such freedoms.

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This posting is in response to an article published by Steve Andriole in IT
Management, titled 'Rethinking Open Source Strategy'


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Howdy David.

I need to point out some misperceptions in your analysis of the
Massachusetts open document format decision. I've cc:'d Eric Kriss,
Secretary, Executive Office for Administration and Finance from that
state. who may be able to shed more light.

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You know how Microsoft keeps touting the idea that goes something like:

"The only reason why Windows platforms are rife with viruses and
Linux isn't, is because our platforms have the market share?"

Well, check this out:


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Howdy James.

You recently gave an interview to ComputerWorld Australia's Rodney Gedda
(Australian ComputerWorld, February 9th, 2005.)


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Will a resurgent Mac waylay Linux? Not likely. Here's why.

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LiveLAMP will do for school computer programming education what Knoppix did for desktop Linux.

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ComputerWorld US has a useful report on the spread of Linux


 Read more here.

Let's see what Microsoft has managed to 'innovate' today.

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If, like me, you value the concept of re-use in software, try the same
again for marketing. Here's a tip to keep in mind whenever the opportunity
arises.


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