Progress report on the Frontier open source release

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"FAQs about Frontier open source
release"

"FAQs about Frontier open source
release" 05/19/2004 10:25 AM

Frontier kernel open-source

Frontier kernel open-source 05/17/2004 01:24 PM
Dave Winer announced that the Frontier kernel—the C code, the internals of the application—will be made open-s ource. I’m glad: I think it’s a good thing for Frontier and Radio and their users.

During the latter part of my stint at UserLand I worked on the Frontier kernel. A big part of my efforts were on Carbonizing it. Timothy Paustian started the job, and handled all the really crazy low-level stuff like threading, then I did user interface stuff and fixed bugs. In some cases I was able to adapt the Aqua appearance, but going all the way with that would probably have tripled the development time. At least.

Anyway, what I love about the kernel is the way it is written in C but is nevertheless object-oriented. (Remember that it was started in the late ’80s, so C was the natural choice.)

The way it’s done is via the use of structs instead of “real” objects. These structs contain function pointers, so one object can inherit from another and have not just different data but different methods.

I found this to be surprisingly elegant, so much so that now, years later, I sometimes get the urge to write in C just so I can use this style of object-oriented programming. (But then the urge passes, and I stick to Objective-C.)

NOSI, the Nonprofit Open Source
Initiative, announces the release of its
new guide "Choosing and Using Open
Source Software: A Primer for
Nonprofits."

NOSI, the Nonprofit Open Source
Initiative, announces the release of its
new guide "Choosing and Using Open
Source Software: A Primer for
Nonprofits." 02/17/2004 11:57 PM
As per a recent post, I love to see (and hope to one day do it myself) Open Source Software in Non-Profits. Seems http://www.nosi.net found my post: http://thelostolive.net/tlo/comments.php?id=1786_0_1_0_C And commented the release of its new guide "Choosing and Using Open Source Software: A Primer for Nonprofits." And now in their own words: ___snip____ -- From: Katrin Verclas Email: steering (a) nosi.net Hi, Kevin - NOSI actually just released a new...

UserLand to Open-Source Frontier Kernel

UserLand to Open-Source Frontier Kernel 05/17/2004 10:27 AM
Dave Winer has interesting news about Frontier, the core product of the company he founded, UserLand: "At some point in...

Progress Embraces Open Source with
Eclipse-Based Tools

Progress Embraces Open Source with
Eclipse-Based Tools 06/22/2005 02:16 AM
Q&A: Progress Software's Joe Alsop explains the strategy behind the vendor's move to open source.

Open source hackers release open fixes
for MSFT vulnerabilityware

Open source hackers release open fixes
for MSFT vulnerabilityware 12/19/2003 11:45 AM
MSFT's apparent incapacity for patching MSIE vulnerabilities hasn't deterred open-source hackers, who have released a free software patch for a well-known Explorer vulnerability.

Update: Andrew sez, "...it contains buffer overflow exploits that are wide open for hax0r5 to take advantage of. In addition, it redirects weird URL requests to -it's own website-."

Update: Yoz points out that the patch has been patched. Link (via /.)

XGI, VIA Release Open Source Drivers

XGI, VIA Release Open Source Drivers 04/13/2005 11:45 AM

Asterisk Open Source PBX 1.0 Release

Asterisk Open Source PBX 1.0 Release 09/23/2004 01:49 PM

Center for American Progress - The
Progress Report - Page

Center for American Progress - The
Progress Report - Page 02/17/2004 06:09 AM
The President's Pal and Business Partner Will Make Millions From Drug Card Program He Helped Design .. The Progress Report: 'Imminent' Semantics; Playing the Blame Game 1/30 .. IRAQ - Intel Warnings Ignored

americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=6228#1
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IBM to Release Java Database to
Open-Source Group

IBM to Release Java Database to
Open-Source Group 08/03/2004 12:49 PM
The company is offering its Java-based Cloudscape database to the Apache Software Foundation.

Open-source advocate: Release Java code

Open-source advocate: Release Java code 02/13/2004 06:44 PM
A day after Sun chief Scott McNealy says "open source is our friend," a prominent advocate of the collaborative programming philosophy calls on the company to open Java code.

Prove open source cred, release Java,
Red Hat tells Sun

Prove open source cred, release Java,
Red Hat tells Sun 09/27/2004 07:02 AM
Computer Business Review Sep 27 2004 11:03AM GMT

Intel To Release Open-Source Code for
BIOS (NewsFactor)

Intel To Release Open-Source Code for
BIOS (NewsFactor) 06/02/2004 01:51 PM
NewsFactor - Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) and firmware developer CollabNet are working together to release open-source code designed to make the BIOS PC and server boot-up process faster and more predictable.

Toronto Open Source Conference Report

Toronto Open Source Conference Report 05/13/2004 12:26 PM

CSC report tracks open source success

CSC report tracks open source success 09/24/2004 05:32 PM

MOZILLA RELOADS FIREFOX: Open source
group releases new preview release of
next generation browser

MOZILLA RELOADS FIREFOX: Open source
group releases new preview release of
next generation browser 06/15/2004 08:26 AM
Mozilla Foundation's press release about Firefox 0.9 .. »MOZILLA RELOADS FIREFOX« .. Mozillan lehdisttiedotteesta

mozilla.org/press/mozilla-2004-06-15.html
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Open Frontier

Open Frontier 05/17/2004 08:44 AM
Dave Winer: At some point in the next few months, there will be an open source release of the Frontier kernel. Does anybody remember Domino Go WebServer?  Anybody?  Bueller? The thought process that Dave describes exactly mirrors the thought process that IBM went through a few years back when it decided to participate in Apache.

Open-source activist Bruce Perens joins
open-source defense group

Open-source activist Bruce Perens joins
open-source defense group 05/07/2004 04:33 PM
A key leader in the open-source software movement has been appointed to the board of Open Source Risk Management, which is defending the legal standing of open-source software.

Paolo on Frontier being open sourced

Paolo on Frontier being open sourced 05/19/2004 01:21 AM
[Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog]

Do You Suffer from Open Source Phobia? -
six reasons you might relent and be
ready for an extreme makeover - OPEN
SOURCE - Magazine - Darwin Magazine

Do You Suffer from Open Source Phobia? -
six reasons you might relent and be
ready for an extreme makeover - OPEN
SOURCE - Magazine - Darwin Magazine 03/08/2004 11:20 PM
http://www.darwinmag.com/read/030104/open.html ASK A GROUP OF corporate IT leaders whether they'd rather stick their arms into a box of tarantulas or allow open source software (OSS) on their networks, and odds are most would start rolling up their sleeves. Not to do any downloading, either.

Slashdot on Open Source Ideas and Open
Source Life

Slashdot on Open Source Ideas and Open
Source Life 06/23/2004 08:27 PM
As Canada protects the patents on genes, Download Aborted wonders whether the genetic code should be considered Open Source. It's slashdotted here. And as atonement for saying something positive about the people at Microsoft — man, you folks are rough! — here's some slashdottism about the anti-Open Source think tanks that Microsoft is funding. (But I still like the Microsofties I've met. So there.)...

Progress Report

Progress Report 01/27/2003 08:03 PM

I've been making some progress on polishing off the new web design. Below are some things I've fixed worth noting:

• Disabling of Javascript in comment links.
• RSS improvements
  • The RSS feed works in aggregators now (like Sinderella and Amphetadesk).
  • I've added the dc:date field to my feed now for easier viewing in aggregation programs.

And some things I'm working on:

• I am working on getting my CMS ready for release.
• New email validation for the comments.
• Extensive mac testing (the Mac I was using for testing at work was taken away for repair. I've heard Safari doesn't work with the dynamic stuff here, I'll be correcting that ASAP).
• Comment previewing
• Non-dynamic commenting
• Switching to a new webhost (reccomendations?)

Elsewhere, one of my two cats is being features over at Stonefishspine's ZenCat. This is the rather large, but perpetually friendly (despite how he looks in the photo) Monty. Drop by and leave a haiku.

Progress Report for Net Censors

Progress Report for Net Censors 06/23/2004 06:23 AM
In Reporters Without Borders' annual report on the state of Internet censorship, China gets special recognition, but the United States gets dinged, too. By Julia Scheeres.

Wayport Progress Report

Wayport Progress Report 01/09/2004 09:52 PM
Wayport has built Wi-Fi networks in over 800 locations, including 35,000 hotel rooms: The company has an additional 20,000 hotel rooms sold, soon to be built. In the last six months of 2003, Wayport logged a 113 percent increase in customer connections--defined as sessions of unlimited use in one location--over the same time frame a year earlier. Wayport's revenues for the fourth quarter 2003 grew 87 percent over the same quarter in 2002....

NetNewsWire 2.0 progress report

NetNewsWire 2.0 progress report 06/25/2004 04:59 PM

We had hoped to ship NetNewsWire 2.0 before WWDC—or at least have a public beta released. But, well, I was optimistic. It looks like it will have to wait until July.

Just so you know, here’s where it’s at...

The major new features are all in testing, except for synching, which I’ve been concentrating on this week. As soon as synching is in testing—either this week or right after WWDC—then all that remains is adding a couple small features, fixing bugs, and adding polish.

In other words, we’re just about to turn the corner and enter the home stretch.

We have a large group of testers, and they’ve been doing a great job of banging on things. Stability is job #1, and it appears to be at least as stable as 1.0.8, if not more so. Performance is also important—some of our testers have huge subscription lists that we’ve been testing with, and we’ve done a bunch of work to make NetNewsWire faster.

(Stability and performance are ongoing jobs, of course, and we’ll continue to work on them after 2.0 ships. Every app could be faster and more stable.)

Dilemma

My dilemma is: when should we release a public beta?

On one hand I want the public beta to be highly polished, so that people get a good impression of the app.

But on the other hand I’m eager to have you get a chance to use all the new features, even if they’re not quite perfect yet.



As an example of what I mean, look at the tabs above. Note how the close button is on the right side. This is an example of the many little details that need to be cleared up before shipping the final version. (Should the close buttons be on the left, a la Safari? But then should the favicon move to the right? Should it be a pref? Or...?)

With a closed testing program, everybody has a stake in improving the app. With a public beta, lots of people evaluate it as if it’s a finished, shipping app—which isn’t fair to the software, but they do it anyway.

So I’m torn between releasing the public beta early, before it’s very polished yet, and releasing it later, when it’s very close to being the final, shipping version.

What do you think? Would it be dumb to release the public beta sooner rather than later, or should I just go for it, release it at the soonest possible date?

A few facts

I’ve mentioned these things before, but I figured I’d repeat them since they’ve scrolled off my weblog...

NetNewsWire 2.0 will be a free upgrade. Everybody who bought (or will buy) 1.x will get all 2.x updates for free.

And here’s a partial list of the new features in 2.0:

Searching
Flagged items
Sample style sheets
Embedded browsing
Smart lists (like smart playlists in iTunes)
Scripted feeds
Search engine feeds
Activity window
Errors window
Synching
Support for external weblog editors
Importing/exporting OPML with groups
Atom feed support
Persistence
Per-feed refresh settings
Suspended feeds

Windows Longhorn: a progress report

Windows Longhorn: a progress report 04/18/2005 04:25 AM
ZDNet UK Apr 18 2005 8:18AM GMT

Regulator becomes target over 3G
progress: report

Regulator becomes target over 3G
progress: report 04/18/2005 08:04 AM
etnet.com.hk Apr 18 2005 10:03AM GMT

Progress Report On PDF Archiving
Standard

Progress Report On PDF Archiving
Standard 05/31/2004 05:38 AM
Progress Report On PDF Archiving Standard
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/25986-1.html

The Federal Publishers Committee is hard at work developing an archiving version of Adobe's Portable Document Format and hopes to release a draft of the PDF/A standard early next year. Committee member Stephen Levenson says the plan is to have a final standard out by the end of 2005, which will be submitted to the International Organization for Standardization for approval as an international standard. The need for an archiving standard is clear, says Levenson. Because Adobe encourages organizations to use its PDF specifications to create their own software for use with PDF file, that customized software may introduce extra features or functionality that make it impossible for outsiders to access certain segments of a file. PDF/A will codify a stripped-down version of the PDF format that will be platform-neutral. PDF/A will standardize aspects of meta-tagging, color representation and multiple language support, and will also require that all fonts used in a document be embedded in the document itself. Once the PDF/A standard has been approved, the committee hopes that software vendors will incorporate it into their own PDF readers and generators. Levenson says he envisions PDF software that would include the PDF/A as a "save as" option, making it easy for users to create archive-ready documents.

Open source opportunity, open source
risk

Open source opportunity, open source
risk 09/22/2004 10:44 AM
I've been traveling more than usual lately, and while on the road I've been working my way through the ITConversations audio archive. It's full of gems, and one of them is Doug Kaye's interview with Philip Greenspun. While discussing the ArsDigita flameout, Greenspun offers insightful perspectives on the opportunity, and the risk, of open source as a business model. ...

Open source process for open source
development

Open source process for open source
development 04/05/2005 11:50 AM

Sun has given every possible indication that Open Solaris will be run as a true open source project. The latest indication is the make-up of the board of directors: Casper Dik, Roy Fielding, Al Hopper, Simon Phipps, and Rich Teer. (via Simon Phipps - congrats Simon!)

A progress report on InfoWorld's
del.icio.us experiment

A progress report on InfoWorld's
del.icio.us experiment 06/05/2005 11:36 PM
Now that InfoWorld's experiment with del.icio.us tagging has been running for a while, it's a good time to step back and assess how things are going. Let's start with this column on AJAX,which I wrote back in April. If you visit that page, you'll find this widget near the top of the right column: ...

New GAO Report Indicates Progress Still
Needed on E-Gov't Initiatives

New GAO Report Indicates Progress Still
Needed on E-Gov't Initiatives 12/24/2004 01:07 PM
BeSpacific Dec 23 2004 3:24AM GMT

Gates gives progress report on fight
against spam

Gates gives progress report on fight
against spam 06/29/2004 10:44 AM
Customers of Microsoft Corp.'s Hotmail service play an integral part in the company's fight against junk e-mail, Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates said in an open letter Monday. He also dismissed the idea of generating revenue from spammers by imposing a charge for sending e-mail.

Bill Gates: Progress Report on SPAM

Bill Gates: Progress Report on SPAM 06/29/2004 07:05 PM

First report on actual progress vs UK
national eGovernment strategy

First report on actual progress vs UK
national eGovernment strategy 12/18/2003 03:21 AM
PublicTechnology.net Dec 18 2003 3:11AM ET

Progress Report On National Digital Info
Preservation Program

Progress Report On National Digital Info
Preservation Program 05/22/2004 06:50 AM
Progress Report On National Digital Info Preservation Program
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0503/mgt-campbell-05-03-04.a sp

Laura Campbell, associate librarian for strategic initiatives at the Library of Congress, says of her work spearheading the LC's collaborative National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, "It's the best job I ever had." Campbell and her colleagues are finishing up their review of 22 proposals from potential preservation partners and are working with experts to construct a technical architecture for the preservation process. Nearly 5 terabytes of digital works characterized as "at risk" have been collected so far. They include Web pages that document recent events, such as the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the ongoing war in Iraq. Librarians used to worry about preserving access to books and periodicals, says Campbell, but with most Web sites staying up an average of only 44 days, preserving access to them is far more complicated. In addition, the copyright issues surrounding long-term preservation of digital journals, books, and audio and video material have yet to be resolved. "There may be technological solutions that make the management of restricted material much easier," says Campbell. Because so much about digital preservation is yet unknown, Campbell says the library's strategy is to learn by doing and be prepared to make corrections along the way. She credits the many experts she consulted during the planning phase of the program with impressing upon her the need for continuing flexibility: "It helped us realize that we would always be learning and adjusting," says Campbell.

N.Korea Crisis Talks Open with Scant
Progress Seen

N.Korea Crisis Talks Open with Scant
Progress Seen 06/23/2004 04:39 AM
Reuters via Wired News Jun 23 2004 9:03AM GMT

From open source to open services to
open information

From open source to open services to
open information 03/29/2005 12:00 PM
My March 21 entry about upcoming.org turned out to be an odd juxtaposition because, on the same day, a new events database called EVDB was announced and shown at PC Forum. It's due out shortly in public beta but I haven't seen it, so for now I only know what you can also learn from reading, among others: Dan Farber, Ross Mayfield, Om Malik, David Weinberger, and Paul Kedrosky (whose recent archive is missing this morning, yikes). The consensus seems to be that EVDB will be a Web-2.0-style, Wiki-style, RSS-friendly, Flickr-and-del.icio.us-like thingy. Sounds promising! I'll certainly check it out when it's public. ...

Microsoft Depends On Shared Source, Dips
Toe In Open-Source Waters (TechWeb)

Microsoft Depends On Shared Source, Dips
Toe In Open-Source Waters (TechWeb) 04/08/2005 04:56 AM
TechWeb - The software vendor will add to the 20 products it now offers for source-code inspection under its Shared Source Initiative.
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