Craig Burton

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Since moving to a new ISP for my DSL connection, I had to change all of the IP addresses for my tutorials on RadioUserland. Here they are. By the way, they are going to change again. This is what DNS is for. My [...]

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I took a one day trip over to San Francisco today to participate in Doc’s panel discussion on Linux as Infrastructure. It was sparsely attended. So was the whole conference frankly. I don’t know who thought of the island theme for Linux Journal, it didn’t work. The mood at the conference was not beach-enabled. Doc [...]

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What appears to be too little too late, last week, VA Linux announced SourceForge Enterprise Edition which is a hybrid combination of open/proprietary software, (The SourceForg core is owned by VA Linux.), and closed/proprietary software. This is in opposition to the traditional Free/Open Source position. The open source position is that open source-based software needs to remain “pure” [...]

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My DSL provider is in its last throws of death. Firstworld.Net let me know a fiew weeks ago it was going to discontinue providing me service as of August 31. It was discontinued today without notice. I spent most of the day trying to get back online with a new provider that was supposed to [...]

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I am not sure how to introduce this link.
You will have to look for yourself.

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8/22/01 1:00 pm Updates:

DJ Adams posted the resulting summary document of yesterday’s work.
Dave Winer set me straight and for the record assures me that he never had any doubt about the value of Jabber. Thanks Dave. Sorry I misunderstood.
James Taylor That Lonesome Road mp3 file.
An attendee of the conference and reader pointed out that [...]

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Here we are at the JabberCon being held in Keystone Coloroado.
“lodgek”
Entrance to Keystone Lodge
Some local flora. Colorado columbine in the aspens. Note: A reader pointed out that this is not columbine.
“columbine”
Columbine
Doc ready for reporting…
“docsign”
Doc Searls
This morning started off with Tim O’Reilly talking about different models of making money while building open source.
Here is a picture [...]

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Here we are in Denver at the Jabber Conference Jabbercon. As soon as I got off of the plane and sat down to read the instructions I hear my name being called. Sure enough my buddy Dave Winer spotted me. (It is tough not to.) I didn’t forget my camera this time. Here are the [...]

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True to form, Richard Stallman continues attempting to dictate the definition of freedom. He is failing. I am so glad this is happening. The “Freedom and How to Enforce It” approach being taken by Stallman and his disciples just isn’t holding up to scrutiny.
At the O’Reilly Open Source Conference during the debate between Craig Mundie and [...]

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The BeOS company shut down. It has been spending someone elses money for far too long.
Here is what Dan Gillmor said about the matter: (Dan is one of my heroes)

This is another valley milestone, and a sad one. Be was a terrific OS. But it lived in a marketplace run by a monopolist. End of story.
Dan, [...]

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