Daily Links 11-20-2006

Michael Robertson: My Hero Dies

Michael Robertson talks about his hero, economist Milton Friedman. I really like Mr. Friedman’s quote snipped from Michael’s blog:

I asked Milton the question I had come up with. “How do you make the world a better place?”

His answer was, “If you want to improve the world you have to create more capital. While creating non-profits makes people feel better, the only way to fundamentally improve living conditions is to create more business.“

(Tags: Michael Robertson, Milton Friedman)

If Microsoft won’t sue Maybe Red Hat Should
MattAslett references the fact that the uncertainty of IP claims about Linux probably has more power than the actual litigation, he points to Matt Asay’s commentary on why it would be better for us all if Microsoft just fired their last shot, sued the purveyors of various open source projects and then go on with life.

(Tags: Microsoft, Red Hat, IP infringement)

Novell holds IRC Meeting to Discuss the Novell/Microsoft Deal

What do you do when the turkey is gone on Thurssday? Don points out that we can log onto IRC and chat with Novell folks about why the Microsoft/Novell deal is a good thing.

(Tags: Linux, Novell, Microsoft)

Cote:Tagging in Systems Management

The key to improving systems management is to figure out how to engage the user in creating systems with better content. Improving the content and capturing user knowledge is what will make “Systems Management 2.0″ interesting vendor driven systems management has reached a plateau. One way to get the user involved and make systems management tools more useful is through the use of tagging.

And for those of you like me that weren’t fully grokking what REST was all about, here’s an explanation.

(Tags: systems management)