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There is an ongoing debate whether our woman chancelor, Angela Merkel, should better have not received the Tibetian intellectual and spiritual leader who is a thorn in China’s flesh. The Chinese show themselves more than exasperated by that asserted betrayal of confidence.

In my humble opinion, there are two remarkable aspects of the publix debate:

1. China is lightyears away from freedom and democracy.
2. The fear that Germany could lose a lot of money because purchase orders break away reveals an dependence from external resources in a broader sense. Wouldn’t a Germany that is strong because of its own be much stronger than one whose strength is built on external resources? Mere orientation on money rewards may lead to minor quality and possibly not to sustainable creation of value – we’ve seen that with dotProject.

Hopefully, ethical principles will soon find their way back into consideration concerning economic decisisions.

After not having used a MC operating system since years I was recently forced to reinstall an XP sibling from 2003 and iteratively updating it.

The accustomed approach from GNU/Linux such as Debian/Ubuntu is starting synaptic or another package manager/update tool, clicking ‘go’: The latest updates download and install automatically – me leaning back having a Martini Bianco. A regular security update is normally accomplished within minutes.

The manual and complicated process of the MC OS took more than a day and involved so many user-interaction, more than twenty restarts, a lot of time waiting at the update website etc. The most interesting thing about the update process has been that the downloaded updates have not been the latest releases but instead needed patches for the patches of the patches. Even worse, it didn’t promote the Service pack 2 at all which btw was (apart from the fact that one needs to know about its existence first) hard to find.

In short: How can people voluntarily waste so much valuable life time?

At the moment there is an ongoing consolidation of the dotProject framework. A number of contributors have decided to establish a forked project fitting their needs diverging from ours. Whilst I think that this is a reasonable and congruous decision – and wish them success – I’m a little bit unhappy about the drop of nice people. The old and new core developers will continue to considerably rework the dotProject framework on the road to the upcoming 3.0 release. This comes along with a number of necessary and important infrastructure changes. I look forward to a better dotProject!