mark's blog

Beware of Geeks Bearing Gifts

Well Microsoft is at it again. Trying to play footsie with the open source community on the one hand, with its announcement that it contributed code to the Linux Kernel (although the value of this is questionable , see below), and trying to enforce patents on the other.

Launch of Open Tech Exchange

Well we, Darlene and I, have finally launched our own podcast. Although we always had the idea, at the back of our minds, to launch our own podcast at  some unspecified time in the future, we were quite happy to contribute to Hacker Public Radio for a while longer; however the lack of control over the release of our shows and our desire to launch our own podcast made us kick up a gear and get our show on the road. We are grateful to Hacker Public Radio for allowing us to contribute to their podcast and we aim to continue to contribute content in future.