http://mooreslore.corante.com/ en-us dana@a-clue.com 2006-01-15T16:55:44-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2006/01/15/its_the_process_stupid.php The Windows Metafile Format (.WMF) dates from 1990. Personally, I'd hate to have to take responsibility for what I did back in 1990, but I haven't made $50 billion in the last 15 years so I don't have to. The... 45385@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Security 2006-01-15T16:55:44-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/23/this_weeks_clue_the_spring_of_consensus.php This week's issue of A-Clue.Com is my annual Year in Preview essay. You're invited to join the A-Clue.Com community by clicking this link. Always free. One problem I have with Robert Prechter's work is its apocalyptic nature. It's the deep... 44779@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Politics 2005-12-23T10:30:10-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/10/14/this_weeks_clue_the_open_source_business_model.php We're back on task at A-Clue.Com , discussing our original charter -- electronic commerce. Of course, if you had (subscribed already these thoughts would be in your inbox right now. Still, better a few hours late than never, right? The... 37059@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Linux 2005-10-14T11:48:11-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/09/29/you_know_for_kids.php Nicholas Negroponte of MIT Media Lab fame, still trying to remain relevant, has announced a program called One Laptop Per Child, which wants to mass produce fully-loaded Linux laptops for schoolchildren in the dveloping world. Given what happened here in... 36659@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Digital Divide 2005-09-29T14:38:44-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/05/14/a_publishers_ethics.php By and large publishers do not share journalism's ethical sense. Instead they apply business ethics. While a journalist's ethics, like that of any other claimed profession, may hold them well short of what's illegal, businessmen must go right up to... 8710@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Journalism 2005-05-14T17:39:38-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/05/12/tragic_end_to_jonesogara_feud.php The feud between Maureen O'Gara of Linux Business Week (left) and Pamela Jones of Groklaw has ended with O'Gara's professional destruction. Days after SCO CEO Darl McBride claimed "Jones is not who she claims she is," O'Gara weighed in with... 8705@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Linux 2005-05-12T09:05:09-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/04/19/open_source_transparency.php The key benefit of open source is transparency. (That's a transparent Mozambique garnet, from CLDJewelry in Tucson, Arizona. Transparency doesn't have to be perfect to be beautiful.) The key benefit is not that the software is free. It's not that... 8646@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Linux 2005-04-19T10:49:08-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/04/14/with_friends_like_these.php Sun's plan to release Solaris under its CDDL open source license got a boost yesterday with an endorsement by...The SCO Group? (This cute Linux penguin keychain from Promotion Potion doubles as a stress ball.) "We have seen what Sun plans... 8631@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Linux 2005-04-14T10:14:05-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/04/04/will_sco_case_make_the_finish_line.php It's beginning to look like the SCO-IBM case won't make it to the finish line, an end to discovery and summary judgement. SCO's sponsors are blowing up. Literally. Maureen O'Gara (left), whose name is like fingers rubbing a balloon to... 8607@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Linux 2005-04-04T21:30:43-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/03/13/novell_supports_son_of_decss.php Remember a week or so ago when I wrote about how someone had cracked their iPod's DRM to stick Linux in there? Well, Novell has released a version of Linux that loves that environment. Silicon.Com reports that SuSE Linux Professional... 8535@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Linux 2005-03-13T08:02:36-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/03/10/one_more_step_for_always_on.php Wind River is continuing its slow march toward the computing mainstream. (The illustration, from the Wind River site, shows the engagement model the company follows with its customers in producing products. It's careful and complicated.) It's easy for someone to... 8526@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Always On 2005-03-10T09:46:39-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/03/07/googles_biggest_achievement.php ZDNet has revealed Google's biggest technical achievement. PCs crash, and Google deals with it.... 8514@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2005-03-07T09:10:34-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/03/01/the_phpmainframe_revolution.php I'll admit that when I read yesterday IBM is putting its corporate might behind PHP, creating a product that combines its Cloudscape database with Zend's PHP tools, my first thought was what's PHP? (By the way, that PHP pinup girl... 8496@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2005-03-01T10:17:17-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/02/22/the_jonesogara_feud.php There's nothing journalists like better than a good old fashioned catfight. (The animated gif catfight is from Supah.Com. I guess you can send it to friends as a postcard.) And in tech journalism today it doesn't get any better than... 8474@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Linux 2005-02-22T15:32:43-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/02/10/a_special_chipontheshoulder_attitude.php I love the Brits. (But I love everyone.) As executives, Brits have developed this wonderful, pugnacious, straight-talking chip-on-the-shoulder attitude in our time. It's a kind of "oh yeah, sez you" that owes more to soccer yobs than fox hunting. And... 8433@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Business Strategy 2005-02-10T10:05:50-05:00