I will never forget the first time I piloted an airplane solo. The moment the wheels separated from the runway the feeling of free flight could be felt in my stomach. Similar to the feeling you get cresting the top of a roller coaster. The difference with flying is that you can move in any …
For the geologists in the crowd, I will attempt to date myself in the technology equivalent of the rock record. I love getting together with techies and trying to see who was the first to deploy xyz; “I installed Novell Network 0.9”, “I had the very first DEC PDP 11”, “We had the first IBM …
I am seeing an alarming trend in the world of Open Source software — the move to privatize platforms. Globally, everyone should be concerned about this trend. For the young IT readers, a little background: Prior to the world of Open Source, a loose network of developers who wrote “shareware” existed. Shareware was …
