Sun And Communities

If you had the misunderstanding that Sun’s idea of an open source community had anything to do with what the rest of the world called a community I’d strongly urge you to read this OpenSolaris mailing list thread.

I think the attitude from some Sun.com posters along with the CDDL + GPL + Proprietary kernel drivers mess should make it painfully obvious what the Sun “community” model is: Make all the decisions internally, throw some code over wall once in a while, and market the beta releases as “Community Releases”. And if some suckers from the outside world happen to fix a couple bugs for us all the better.

And They Wonder Why…

And the right-wing blogs wonder why they have so little influence in Republican politics:

Erick Erickson, editor of the popular conservative megablog RedState, conceded that progressives currently enjoy an advantage over conservatives online—though he attributed it to an asymmetry in free time, since conservatives “have families because we don’t abort our kids, and we have jobs because we believe in capitalism.” Erickson offered three means of reversing the trend.

Ummm yeah… Good luck with that. (Psstt… You are not supposed to say the crazy stuff in public.)

(Source: Arstechnica: GOP digerati call on party to emulate Dems by embracing ‘Net)

Hillary Clinton: Thanks For Nothing

On the FISA Amendment blocking Telco Immunity:

Clinton (D-NY), Not Voting
Obama (D-IL), Yea

She was apparently “too busy” campaigning to vote while Obama made a point to be around and make a stand on something.

Congratulations Hillary. I didn’t think it would be possible for me to vote Republican this presidential cycle but if you end up being the Democratic candidate I have both a vote and cash for McCain’s campaign.