Where Open Source Fails

Earlier this week, I unsubscribed from the mailing lists of a pair of Open Source projects. About two years ago when I found the projects, they involved fascinating topics in under served niches. One of those niches – the one customer/user-facing – is still there and under served, but that’s not relevant in the current […]


Building Community & Open Source

If you’re not part of the Joomla community – I’m not – you might have missed something significant that happened this morning (This morning being 12 midnight on 02 July 2009): The Joomla Extension Directory (JED) went 100% GPL. [1] [2] While this doesn’t seem like a big deal to many, the change is interesting. […]