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Dissolving Boundaries with Qt Publish Date: Apr. 1, 1999
The balkanization of computer culture seems particularly extreme these days. Windows against UNIX. Proprietary against Open Source. Richard Stallman against everybody. But in an industry polarized by technical and philosophical debates, Qt unites.
Whence the Source: Untangling the Open Source/Free Software Debate Publish Date: Mar. 1, 1999
Who claims the ideological high ground in the Free Software/Open Source debate? The answer might surprise you. Read about it in Whence the Source: Untangling the Open Source/Free Software Debate, another O'Reilly exclusive from the desk of Thomas Scoville.
OSS Europe: Open Source™ Over There Continental Savoir-Faire Publish Date: Feb. 1, 1999
Is Open Source development the same everywhere? Programmer and writer Thomas Scoville doesn't think so. In OSS Europe: Open Source Over There he suggests the differences are deeply philisophical ones that could, in the long run, shift the focus of software development from the United States.
O'Reilly Unix Center -- Love and UNIX: An Undying Affection Publish Date: Feb. 1, 1999
But at the risk of alienating all my other significant relationships, I'm compelled to proclaim that other love that dare not speak its name: I love my operating system. And even though linear-thinking, arch-rational computer adepts like myself are seldom compelled to such attachments, when love blooms on the desktop, the object of affection is very often UNIX.
Perl And The Crystal Ball: Economic Forecasting at the Fed Publish Date: Jan. 1, 1999
Open Source software at the Federal Reserve? That's right. Columnist Thomas Scoville discovered that Perl does some heavy lifting when it comes to economic policy decision making.
