http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2006/02/13/codecon-extra/ My opinions only. I do not represent any organization in this publication. Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:00:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2006/02/13/codecon-extra/#comment-20860 Mike Linksvayer » LinuxWorld San Francisco Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:21:44 +0000 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2006/02/13/codecon-extra/#comment-20860 [...] By far the most interesting exhibition booth to me was Cleversafe, an open source dispersed storage project that announced a Linux filesystem interface at the conference and was written up in today’s New York Times and Slashdot. I’ve been waiting for something like this for a long time, particularly since Allmydata is not open source and does not support Linux. [...] [...] By far the most interesting exhibition booth to me was Cleversafe, an open source dispersed storage project that announced a Linux filesystem interface at the conference and was written up in today’s New York Times and Slashdot. I’ve been waiting for something like this for a long time, particularly since Allmydata is not open source and does not support Linux. [...]

]]> http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2006/02/13/codecon-extra/#comment-17397 Mike Linksvayer » Free software needs P2P Sat, 29 Jul 2006 02:50:48 +0000 http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2006/02/13/codecon-extra/#comment-17397 [...] I hesitated to include this point because I hesitate to recommend that most people host services under a domain name they control. What is the half-life of http://blog.john.smith.name vs. http://johnsmith.blogspot.com or js@john.smith.name vs. johnsmith@gmail.com? Wouldn’t it suck to be John Smith if everything in his life pointed at john.smith.name and the domain was hijacked? I think Wes and I discussed exactly this outside CodeCon earlier this year. Certainly it is preferable for a service to allow hosting under one’s own domain (as Blogger and several others do), but I wish I felt a little more certain of the long-term survivability of my own [domain] names. [...] [...] I hesitated to include this point because I hesitate to recommend that most people host services under a domain name they control. What is the half-life of http://blog.john.smith.name vs. http://johnsmith.blogspot.com or js@john.smith.name vs. johnsmith@gmail.com? Wouldn’t it suck to be John Smith if everything in his life pointed at john.smith.name and the domain was hijacked? I think Wes and I discussed exactly this outside CodeCon earlier this year. Certainly it is preferable for a service to allow hosting under one’s own domain (as Blogger and several others do), but I wish I felt a little more certain of the long-term survivability of my own [domain] names. [...]

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