Gina and I were registered to hear Malcolm Gladwell speak in New York. The evening didn’t go according to plan. Traffic was heavy on the way in — we figured there was probably a Yankee game backing up the Cross Bronx onto the George Washington Bridge. We might have made it if we had left [...]

Eric Raymond has popularized the Ghandi quote (“First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.”) in the context of the open source movement. Danny O’Brien had a great keynote at OSCON on this topic. I was thinking about the parallels of the open source movement to the [...]