How an Accident of Hardware Design Encouraged Open Source

ONLamp.com -- How an Accident of Hardware Design Encouraged Open Source:

Back in the early 1970s, the hardware engineers at Digital Equipment Corporation made a decision about how their new computer, the PDP-11, would address memory. I believe their decision had the unintended, butterfly-effect consequence of helping to bring the open source software movement into existence.

3rd International Conference on Open Source Systems

Just got word today that my paper on "Project Entity Matching across FLOSS Repositories" was accepted to the 3rd International Conference on Open Source Systems to be held in Limerick, Ireland, June 11-14.

I'm also co-chair of the Workshop on Public Data about Software Development which will also be held at that conference.

I learned a lot last year and met some really fun people, so hopefully this year will be just as good. I am excited!

Cory Doctorow to speak at Duke

Cory Doctorow is speaking at Duke, 5pm on Thursday, February 22.

Students spend a lot of their time being admonished to protect their privacy on Myspace and Facebook, lest nude pictures and drunken boasts prevent them from one day becoming bank managers and college presidents. But as award-winning science fiction author and Boing-Boing blogger Cory Doctorow will reveal in this talk, the reality of privacy, surveillance and social networks is very different. And much scarier.