Adam Monsen

What’s up with OpenLogic? A recent wave of press claims that OpenLogic’s data reveals the top Open Source license. Meh, no way.

I commented on that article (corrections made):

Sean, your headline and article are misleading. These claims may be true for OLEX, but not FLOSS in general. I’ve been downloading FLOSS for over 10 years, and I’ve never heard of OLEX. I download most FLOSS from GNU/Linux distributors (Fedora/Debian/Ubuntu/Canonical). I’m not sure if they even track downloads.

Do the people at Geeknet/sf.net, Google Code, and the FSF support your findings?

Come on, OpenLogic. Are you serious?

http://chrisaitchison.com/2011/05/03/you-are-not-a-software-engineer

Thank you Jesse for the link!

I really like the post, but I’d like to suggest a couple changes to the Chris Aitchison. Maybe the team of people building the software is the garden, and the software product is just a fruit (or maybe people producing the software are gardeners and the garden!). Second, the metaphor works well enough for Web programmers. But folks writing game ROMs (for instance, 8-bit Nintendo games), lunar lander software, and Level-A software for commercial airliners really are Software Engineers.

I still like Free Software, but I decided to change the name of this blog to just… my name. In my feed reader, I found myself renaming other creatively-named blogs authored by one person mainly about their own interests to their name. So I guess this is dogfooding.

Dear reader, I’d love to hear your preference: creative blog names or simple but accurate names?

Blargh == blog. I think I got that from Aaron Patterson.