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		Simon Phipps Simon.Phipps@sun.com Simon Phipps speaks frequently at industry events on Free and Open Source software, technology trends and futures. At various times he has programmed mainframes, Windows and on the Web. Currently the Chief Open Source Officer at Sun Microsystems, Inc., he was previously involved in OSI standards in the 80s, in the earliest commercial collaborative conferencing software in the early 90s and in introducing Java and XML to IBM. He lives in the UK, is based at Sun's Menlo Park campus in California and can be contacted via http://www.webmink.net. He also maintains a personal blog and a work-related blog in addtion to this Java-related one. Weblogs F/OSS on Patents Just sitting in the final session at F/OSS at Harvard, largely on software patents. The Dog that Didn't Bark I really like the report on Corante about java.net but it raises for me the question of why none of the other sources I respect in... At F/OSS I am (unexpectedly) at the MIT/HBS Free/Open Source Software conference at Harvard. The first session included a paper comparing Apache,... Decompression Heading out of town today, I met Mark Thomas from IBM at the Hertz office. Seems he too needs a break after JavaOne. We're both (independently) heading to Yosemite for the weekend - in fact, I am... Dot-Stuff I've seen a few people commenting on the new java.xxx URLs - Paul and ... Roundtable report FTPOnline has a report on the J2EE Roundtable held on Monday. Elitism? Alan Williamson wasn't too impressed with Jonathan Schwartz's keynote yesterday, it seems (complete with IDE demos - I hope he's... Cruisin' I'm taking the chance to roam the exhibit hall today and just bumped into my friend Neil Bauman of GeekCruises, who is here promoting events like his... Round-table The last few years I have been privileged to moderate a round-table discussion between the leaders of the J2EE... Java - to Mars and beyond! Dinner last night was an excellent opportunity to meet Ronald Mak, a researcher at NASA Ames who is respoonsible for the middleware powering the information feeds used by Mars Probe scientists.... Anticipation I'm now in a cold... Webmink About Town I've been blogging for 18... « first ‹ previous 1 2