Monthly Archives: February 2009

The Most Free(tm) Way to Make Money from Open Source

Tarus Balog is on a one-man campaign against open-core licensing, or really, any company that produces both open source and closed source software: Of course, in the open core model there must be “commercially-available extensions” in order to get companies … Continue reading

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Summary of February 2009 Puppet Developer call

We had another developer call last night, and until I can get the audio posted, here’s a basic summary. Development Workflow We led the discussion with a conversation about how the development workflow will change now that we’re finally releasing … Continue reading

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Golden Image or Foil Ball?

The essential basis of running services in “the cloud” is that they run in virtual machines, which come with their own idioms and practices for managing them.  One of the mainstays of managing virtual machines (‘VMs’) uses what’s called ‘golden … Continue reading

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