Monthly Archives: November 2009

the elusive open source business model

Posted on November 30, 2009 by admin

In some cases, dominant technology companies have used open-source projects as pawns. Google, for example, has needled Microsoft by providing financial support to the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation, which oversees of the development of Firefox. I.B.M. has been a major backer … Continue reading →

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multicore and multiprocessor performance

Posted on November 26, 2009 by admin

Here’s two  interesting tables Percentage of lock acquisitions for global TCP/IP locks that do not succeed immediately. OS Type 6 conns 192 conns 16384 conns MsgP 89 100 100 ConnP-L(4) 60 56 52 ConnP-L(8) 51 30 26 ConnP-L(16) 49 18 … Continue reading →

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The ridiculous GPL-only tagging of Linux

Posted on November 25, 2009 by admin

Imagine that you release software under a license that is primarily concerned with making sure that modifiable source code is available to all and that no restrictions should ever be placed on derived works. Now imagine that someone takes a … Continue reading →

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