I was catching up on some blogs I read when I came upon this post over at TarryBlogging. He was responding to an article on ZDnet written by Dana Blankenhorn.

This article (found here) is regarding Xen, Open Source, and virtualization. Apparently Mr Blankenhorn recently interviewed Xensource’s Simon Crosby and wasn’t impressed.

Like Tarry, I don’t get Dana’s point. In fact, I’m not even sure why ZDnet published this. It really lacks any point. I think he’s trying to make a point without really understanding the technology. Or any technology for that matter. I read some of his other articles, and he doesn’t seem to get any where. It’s like he’s writing inside jokes that only he understands. In his articles, he starts to go somewhere but never goes there.

I know this seems kinda harsh, and in all fairness I found some articles written by him that are very interesting:

Like this one on former Open Source Initiatives general counsel Larry Rosen’s stand on the GPL.

Or this one discussing wether GPL v2 or GPL v3 will emerge as the open source standard.

All I can say is edit your work and make sure you are making the point you want to make.  (Good advise I should probably take myself.)

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