The “mad month” has started – over the next four weeks, we bring India’s biggest Free & Open Source Software event to life. Linux Bangalore/2004 happens on December 1/2/3, with the Business and Enterprise tracks happening on November 29 and 30. In these four weeks, the managers of the event and I will work late [...]

I just returned from a checkup at St.John’s Hospital, off Hosur Road. When I left for the place, it took me a little less than 45 minutes to get there. And it took me almost 2.5 hours to get back, more than 3/4 of that time was spent crawling at 1 metre a minute on [...]

Today would have been my uncle,

So I was in Pune over the last weekend, and I had a good time there. I gave a talk on the Business of Open Source, which will hopefully have drilled into the SCIT students that there is real money to be made in this field, and that it isn’t only about freedom. I showed [...]

I am in Pune Friday evening through Monday morning, speaking at the SCIT, at their National Seminar on State of IT 2004. I will be speaking on Saturday just after lunch on “The Business of Open Source”, where I will be looking at business models in Open Source software development, and again on Sunday evening [...]

I thought this news item was fairly hilarious. Another one of those “fantastic” news items that have a headline that is completely unrelated to the body. Guardian Digital has a great product called EnGarde Secure Linux, and ISRO decided to use it. But of course the news item has to have a headline that says: [...]

Christopher Reeve, the actor who became the living image of the fictional Superman, died on Sunday. After being paralysed years ago, he fought back to life, and gave new hope to people like him across the world. Goodbye, Chris. You played the part of Superman as a role in a film, and then went on [...]

This *has* to be a gold mine of quick crib notes for future Web entrepreneurs – Jeremy Zawodny‘s electronic scribbles from the Web 2.0 conference. You want to know where things are going? Don’t have time to go to conferences? Read. Now. Look for all topics with “Web 2.0″ in the subject. Jeremy – would [...]

When Linus Torvalds has something to say, he rarely does it in an ignorable fashion. Such is the case in his latest “mega-post”, which (I think, and despite his disclaimers) is something *everyone* should read – whether you are into Linux or not, whether you are a technical person or not, whether you are a [...]

This may seem like a strange post to you, and may even seem like I am banging my own drum. I am not – please read the whole thing, and try and understand what I am trying to say, and why you may be the biggest beneficiary if you do. [Updated] Read the rest of [...]