I just got this e-mail: Great! – I thought. I enjoy making history. So I click the link, and what do I see … Notice the <<<< .mine === etc.? It’s Subversion tags letting someone know that when they did an “svn update” on the Firefox Download Day 2008 index page – someone else had edited it already so that a conflict occurred. Let’s look at the code: So somone need to fix this and maybe keep revision 15918 (not bad) and do a svn resolve ASAP ;-)

This week’s issue of The Economist has an interesting article on open source called Open, but not as usual (subscription required). It’s not all positive, here are some paragraphs: As “open-source” models move beyond software into other businesses, their limitations are becoming apparent.EVERY time internet users search on Google, shop at Amazon or trade on eBay, they rely on open-source software—products that are often built by volunteers and cost nothing to use.