Hmmm. Checking in.

Just checking to see if I am still on this list. I have been lurking, but 
plan to participate more in 2006.

/cp


Chris Preimesberger
Editor/Reporter
Ziff Davis Internet
San Francisco, Calif.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Thompson" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: "mikko puhakka" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; "R. Scott 
Belford" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 4:43 PM
Subject: Re: Big news for 2006


>
> On Dec 23, 2005, at 10:19 PM, Chris DiBona wrote:
> On 12/22/05, Jim Thompson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> GPLv3 will be a lot of the FOSS news in 2006.
>>
>> http://www.fsf.org/news/gplv3launch
>> http://gplv3.fsf.org
>>
>> I think this is a lot more important than what the VCs do or don't do.
>>
>>
>> On Dec 22, 2005, at 10:47 AM, mikko puhakka wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hello all, what do you predict to be the big news for Free/Open
>>> source software for 2006?
>>>
>>> My view is that we will see 2-4 big exits/IPOs, that will wake up
>>> the rest of the ecosystem resulting e.g. in one or more Open Source
>>> software dedicated VC fund.
>>>
>>> mikko
>>> http://pukkis.blogspot.com/
>>>
>>
>>
>> Yeah, I'm with Jim on this one. It'll dominate the news come late next
>> year. And can I say this: Why am I going to boston in january? That's
>> nuts... Can't someone please tell richard that boston is a cold place?
>
> Ya know, its too bad rms couldn't have scheduled the gpl conf for Dec  16, 
> 2005, some 232
> years after the original Boston Tea Party.   Perhaps we can have  GPLv3 
> released on Dec 16, 2006,
> since 233 is prime!
>
> If you're bothered by cold, come to TPOSSCON in early Jan.  http:// 
> www.tposscon.com/
>
> its all blue skies and 80F here today, and the North Shore is going  off 
> now and all next week (20-25' faces).
>
> Jim
>