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October 10, 2007
Open Source Software Blog Posts I Refuse to Write

As anyone that blogs or writes regularly knows, you always want to keep a little scrapbook of ideas nearby in case there’s a slow news day but your editor still wants you to fill up the spot beside your photo with something new.

Today is such a slow news day. So I went through my scrap paper and the best I can come up with Ms. Book is a list of open source software (OSS) blog post ideas that I refuse to blog about:

• I will not blog about the iPhone, whether or not it uses OSS or interacts with OSS. I am just sick of hearing about iPhone.
• I will not blog about Business Week’s article on Sun’s OSS strategy. But our subscribers should look at the article.
• I will not blog about OpenOffice until it has an email function. Until then, it might better be called OpenDesk.
• I will not blog about Google buying Jaiku. It would very quickly deteriorate into an iPhone story.
• I will not blog about the two guys leaving Thunderbird. Any OSS project that is that dependent on two guys is not real community.
• I will not blog about “cloud computing.” Been there, done that; see Data General and N.T.T. circa 1987.
• I will not blog anymore about Microsoft accusations that OSS violates its patents. That subject is hot again this week but the story is two years old and I said all I can say about it here in June.
• I don’t think I’ll blog any more about the Open Source Initiative (OSI) debating the Microsoft Public and Reciprocal licenses. I updated my September 10 posting below. It looks like a done deal. (I guess I’ll have to go back to that well though in the highly unlikely case that the OSI board turns Microsoft down.)

Instead, I think I will do some research into the Oracle proxy statement asking shareholders to vote in favor of OSS. So look for a post on Friday. And I will write about the new Pentaho Business Intelligence (BI) tools in an upcoming ebizQ deliverable on OSS BI like this ebizQ feature article from a few weeks ago.