Mono 0.10 has been released.

Microsoft released Rotor, here is a link to the potential problems patent-wise.

I ran into Sam Ruby as he was arriving to the hotel today.

Later that night we went to have dinner organized by Dare Osbanjo (you might know him for his Java and C# comparission document). He got a group of really interesting people together: Joshua Allen, Paul Johns (Dr Gui) and Omri. I invited Lee Fisher.

We had a great evening. The dinner discussion was really interesting (specially the licensing and open source discussion), because we had some really smart people on the table. The fascinating part of this discussion is that we were passionate about what we believed in on both sides of the table, but both sides exposed some very interesting points. For example, there is the matter of forcing people to release their IP, which bothers people.

And just like it bothers me to not have source code, and not being able to change it, I could feel that we connected in terms of the fact that *forcing* you to release the code could bother other people on the same level. I still love the GPL, but I *can* understand much better the feeling if you watch it from the other side.

Sam has some great thoughts on the subject as well: he goes into a bit of depth on the topic of communities and the various "protections" in them.

Later on we explored a bit more of the archeology of .NET. In general, I have found that I do enjoy a lot the *history* of software projects and .NET is one of my favorite projects.

I spent the whole day on an airplane coming to Seattle.

I am almost done with `Blindness' from Jos� Saramago. An extraordinary book, I love the way this book is written. Thanks go to Alan for suggesting it.

fuji

My Fuji 6800 digital camera broke last week. It just started claiming `ERR CRD' and it would never recover. Am trying to get a replacement right now. But it is sad, because I will not get to take pictures of people in my trip and if I do not get a replacement on time, I will not have a camera by the time I go to Madrid in two weeks.

Today I talked about free software and open source on a video conference with the special commission on new technologies of the Spanish Senate.

The Europapress post.

A video is available here. Microsoft later charged against the GPL.

Paolo got the Mono C# compiler compiling itself on Linux finally. It has been a long week. Dietmar and Ravi have been fixing bugs everywhere.

Getting ready for the Jaguares concert tomorrow in Boston.

My new of new books from Amazon just arrived, `The Adapted Mind', `Plane Insanity' and `Manufacturing Consent'

With Nat in Orlando Florida. We went to Ben's wedding in Disney World. Some pictures are here.

Federico

Federico has been taking some amazing pictures.