Quantum Thoughts

IMHO the assumptions of the gathering can be wrapped up in the  following two.

1. It’s not about the ideology but about the product itself. Open Source culture is more for the entrepreneur (no license fee, strong community bug support and features) but not for the end user. As a FOSS enthusiast myself have numerous times tried to sell FOSS ideology as a product feature. No luck. On the contrary user cares about usability, low support and upgrade costs. Provide small invoice values and good support and this should do the trick.
2. If you choose to go open source with your product, aim internationally, market the product in the FOSS community and try to keep community happy. This community building process is one of the most important in my perspective since is your elastic pool of developers and marketeers as your product grows.

ps. I am planning on uploading my presentations in slideshare this week so keep posted.

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I was expecting such a development (LinQ for Java), but from an open source initiative rather than the SUN specification committee.  My understanding is that jcp would speed up to implement a so much celebrated development feature in .NET an action that has performed in the past with annotations and many other type specification. That is jcp under SUN guidance. Now my sense is that Larry is even more fond of the linq counterpart in the jdk. He is a database community guy and appreciates good data handling. The distinct here is that probably would be a modular feature (!!), aligned with the long term objective of two jdk versions one open and one enterprise.

On hovering the image alt informs us: Scientists unveil fossil of Darwinius masillae

cool.

After this post on twitter

I saw this in my mailbox

Spooky or what?

Time to start my ePenis enlargement plan, no does not involve any sort of pumping mechanism, some more social activity since lately having so many interdisciplinary actions I have been lost somewere in between.

OLED flexy screens on the way.

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