Maszman Speaks!

As part of their obvi­ous need to cut costs, OSDN (Open Source Devel­op­ers Net­work) is end­ing their affil­i­ate agree­ment with kuro5hin​.org. K5 has always had a “more than Linux” approach to things (which made it less stri­dent than /.). Luck­ily, they’re not likely to die as a result.

Mean­while, the owner of OSDN, VA Linux, is chang­ing their name to VA Soft­ware. This reflects their retreat from the hard­ware busi­ness and, along with the OSDN changes, sig­nals the begin­ning of a fight to stay alive. This is an impor­tant one for open source soft­ware, since VA what­ever owns Source­Forge, the host­ing facil­ity (and more) for thou­sands (28,759 at last count) of open source projects.

TANSTAAFL, but accord­ing to Ama­zon, switch­ing to Linux has saved them big bucks. The alert reader will rec­og­nize that this is not Linux on the desk­top, but inter­est­ing nonetheless.

Appar­ently AT&T is aban­don­ing fixed wire­less, join­ing Sprint who announced like­wise last week. This is dis­ap­point­ing, since I’m not in a DSL-eligible area and I don’t want cable. I had hoped that fixed wire­less might be the answer for me, but it’s unlikely now. Ideas?

Unlike Scoble, I can’t remem­ber all of the details about the acci­dent I was in last year. I have yet to decide if that’s good or bad.

Read Don’t make cyber­space into a police state. It’s a Brave New World.

It seems the Talk­ing Moose has dis­cov­ered that the lat­est MSN Mes­sen­ger (4.5) is spy­ware. Or is it now a inte­gral part of the oper­at­ing sys­tem? Or both?