Free is too Expensive

Working at the Internet Systems Consortium, I feel I have a somewhat privileged look into the open source business model, which I’d like to address. We face the unique challenge of developing and maintaining BIND, the most-installed nameserver software on the planet, which some estimates place on 80% of all DNS servers. We’re proud of our open source heritage–one that began with the first iteration

Richard Sherman: What you Lose when Winning is Everything

Richard Sherman had a great game. He in fact made the game ending play. 30 million people saw it. In his post game impromptu interview he drilled it home and screamed his greatness to all, like he was creating a rap song — in addition he insulted his individual match up, Michael Crabtree. And it was wrong. Wrong for sports, wrong for the NFL, wrong for the Seahawks and wrong for every young athlete aspiring to greatness at her sport.

I get the backstory grew up in Compton, went to stanford, academic and athletic all-star. If you are really that great and are secure in your greatness, you don’t have to bring it up. Let someone else do it for you.

When I was an investment banker working on Wall Street just out of college on the largest trading floor in world, one of the senior traders gave me a tip “Those that say don’t know, those that know don’t say”. If you have to remind the world how great you are it masks a deep seated insecurity.

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