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Re: The Most Free(tm) Way to Make Money from Open Source

Life in Australia — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:36:44 -0000

As far as I see it, requiring copyright attribution restricts the developer community, while providing commercial add-ons doesn’t restrict anyone anywhere, it just says that some of my code isn’t free.

Re: Puppet and OpenQRM

Life in Australia — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:35:45 -0000

I haven’t yet had the chance to give OpenQRM a try, but hopefully this will encourage others to try it,

Re: A Short Puppet History, pt. 2: Cfengine

Life in Australia — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:34:34 -0000

I’m a very technical person, but I completely understand the value and necessity of selling my ideas, whether it be to colleagues, coworkers, employees, or customers.

Re: The Most Free(tm) Way to Make Money from Open Source

insuranceadvice — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:15:40 -0000

I also think that companies can charge for addons.They have to make a living.The problem is too many companies try to be OSS but they do not actually realize that you need to eat and pay bills.Commercial support is also an option like you said,but not even canonical is making a profit with that.It is not difficult to monetize OSS but is definitely not easy.

Re: The Most Free(tm) Way to Make Money from Open Source

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Re: I’m keeping my Google Phone

Cotton Yarn Exporter — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:32:33 -0000

The gPhone has pretty cool gesture recognition for unlocking — you get a grid of nine dots and have to make a specific gesture to unlock the phone, but all phones have there own fun to use.

Re: RailsMachine Releases Puppet Rails Tool

Cotton Yarn Exporter — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:30:47 -0000

Will wait for the next step to get the ShadowPuppet pure Ruby interface imported into Puppet. Hope it will be good !

Re: Puppet makes it into MacPorts

Cotton Yarn Exporter — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:29:47 -0000

It is good news. Hope things will be better in near future !

Re: Using ‘git rebase’ to clean development histories

Cotton Yarn Exporter — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:29:25 -0000

This is pretty easy for four patch series, but obviously gets more complicated as we have tens of sets. I think for now, it’s too much work to maintain the patch sets in appropriate merge order without actually merging, but I think at some point, it really will make sense.

Re: Summary of February 2009 Puppet Developer call

Cotton Yarn Exporter — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:26:21 -0000

There was also discussion of fly-by-night developers, people who show up, produce a patch or two, and wander off. James Turnbull (who handles 99% of the merging and release management) said he was fine accepting patches over email, rather than forcing people to publish everything via git.

Re: The Most Free(tm) Way to Make Money from Open Source

Cotton Yarn Exporter — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:24:00 -0000

To me, community is the big differentiator. If a given OSS project doesn’t actually care enough about a community, then open core is basically a sales tool.

Re: LinkedIn and TripIt

Cotton Yarn Exporter — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:23:09 -0000

It is good ! TripIt is my very favorite travel-related web site — I forward all of my confirmations to them and they automatically build a schedule with all of the confirmation codes and everything.

Re: A Short Puppet History, pt. 2: Cfengine

Cotton Yarn Exporter — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:19:59 -0000

In addition to the opportunity, I thought I actually had some decent ideas, and I was pretty confident in my ability to make a living selling them.

Re: Puppet and OpenQRM

Cotton Yarn Exporter — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:16:53 -0000

Hopefully this will encourage others to try it, and maybe one of those others will let me know how it goes for them.

Re: Puppet and OpenQRM

Cotton Yarn Exporter — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:05:47 -0000

In the proprietary example they would still be playing phone tag just to figure out how their lawyers could talk. I am pretty sure Matt never even called Luke once during that whole process.

Re: Summary of February 2009 Puppet Developer call

snow shovel — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:34:24 -0000

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Re: The Most Free(tm) Way to Make Money from Open Source

Love Poems & Love Quotes — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:18:38 -0000

One thing I know is open source is the coolest thing to get into for your business. If you haven't gotten into it then you really should.

Re: I’m keeping my Google Phone

WatsonRodriguez — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:32:45 -0000

Well here you have it folks, honest-to-goodness pics of the Google Phone... AKA, the Nexus One. As you can see by the photos, the design of the device is largely similar to those we've seen, but the graphic on back is slightly different, and that piece of tape is covering a QR code (how very Google of them).
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Re: Summary of February 2009 Puppet Developer call

WatsonRodriguez — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:19:56 -0000

IT to reduce headcount yet still meet increased IT demands. Adding one more layer to “the Perfect Storm” forming in IT has been the growth in virtualization and cloud computing; both technologies offer a cost-effective way to expand storage, services and processing capacities without further cash outlays for new hardware infrastructure.
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Re: Puppet on the IT Management Podcast

WatsonRodriguez — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:15:18 -0000

The topic of paid-for grade support brings up the topic of what Reductive Labs is doing to build further products around Puppet. I ask Luke what to tell us more of what they’ve been working on. He tells us it’s along the lines of a monitoring dashboards, reporting, and correlation tools for diagnosing problems in the realms that Puppet controls.
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Re: Data Lifetimes and Cache Expiration

WatsonRodriguez — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:13:56 -0000

For volatile items that are stored in the cache, such as those that have regular data refreshes or those that are valid for only a set amount of time, you typically set an expiration policy that keeps those items in the cache as long as their data remains current.
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Re: Using ‘git rebase’ to clean development histories

WatsonRodriguez — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:26:47 -0000

A cleaver. Rebase helps to cut up commits and slice them into any way that you want them served up, and placed exactly where you want them. You can actually rewrite history with this command, be it reordering commits, squashing them into bigger ones, or completely ignoring them if you so desire.
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Re: PuppetCamp 2009

WatsonRodriguez — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:24:04 -0000

I have to say I've really enjoyed Puppet Camp. It's a reinvigorating experience, despite the jet-lag, to meet up with smart, passionate and engaged operations people from all walks of life. My highlight really has been the people, and that's what I love about smaller unconferences is that you can meet everyone and everyone has something to contribute. Agile 2009 was great to go to, but I personally find I get more from smaller events.
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Re: Puppet and OpenQRM

creditsolutions — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:02:17 -0000

This is a great job! Well done. Thanksfor sharing with us.

Re: PuppetCamp 2009

if Travel — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:45:29 -0000

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