The Coolness of Clipperz

And now…a short recommendation for an under-appreciated service called Clipperz. I use it every day.
Clipperz is an online password manager. It can help you do the following:

use different passwords for each site on which you have a login account (if you use the same username/password combo on some new user forum that you use for [...]

Is AGPLv3 Too Radioactive?

Continuing the thread with Simon Wardley, I want to lay out a couple thoughts that Simon’s reply has prompted me to finally put into writing. This is two of two.
In Simon’s reply to my comments, he states:
However ‘Affero’ enforced that changes are to be released back and this could possibly discourage use. It could also [...]

Long Live the SaaS Loophole

Continuing the thread with Simon Wardley, I want to lay out a couple thoughts that Simon’s reply has prompted me to finally put into writing. This is one of two.

In a comment reply, Simon Wardley points out that the aforementioned “SaaS Loophole” is actually a good thing. I agree. To put a finer point on [...]

re: “Reputation, SaaS, and Marketplaces…” (Simon Wardley)

Simon Wardley, formerly of Fotango, the promising company that providing a hosted Javascript environment called Zimki and that is now unfortunately defunct, recently posted a thoughtful blog entry regarding Bungee Labs’ hypothetical strategy for open source.
As I am involved in Bungee Labs’ planning for how we might open the platform, I found good insight and [...]

Screencast of Socal Linux Expo Presentation

As services and software start to move more and more into the cloud–the emerging domain of service providers hosting not just storage or virtual machines, but the actual code for web applications–some very interesting question arise:

How does sharing code become easier?
How can you provide developers maximum control over their creations?
How will source code licenses work?
How [...]