Claudio Saavedra

csaavedra@gnome.org

Go forward in time to October 2011.

Sat 2011/Sep/24
  • After three years in Finland, I finally spent a weekend in a traditional mökki, with wood stove sauna, makkara, mushroom picking, midnight drunken cold-lake skinny dipping, rowing, and getting up with dawn for the sole purpose of getting gems like this one:

    waking up in sysmä

    Since it was the weekend of el dieciocho, I made some pisco sour, too.

Wed 2011/Sep/21
  • Let's say, you have a product that relies on a free software platform. Let's say, you want to add a particular feature to that product for differentiation, but you know that the free software community is not very keen of your practices of keeping code in-house. So you want to give back, at least to avoid some criticism. How to make it so, that the feature is still exclusive to your new product?

    Well, it's very easy. Wait until the free software platform where you added that feature is already in code freeze, and only then do a code drop in their bugzilla. That way, you make sure that they won't be releasing it until at least 6 months after your product is already on the market. Touché.

    Cynicism in this entry is for free and any resemblance with reality is merely coincidental and should not be taken very seriously.

Go backwards in time to August 2011.

Wed 2011/Sep/21 17:37:26 +0300