Starting to use Open Live Writer

My wish is to try and put a blog post every week. I was looking for a tool that can help me do this.  I remembered good old Microsoft Live Writer. First link from Google search shows up a refererence to tool built in 2009 (I am sure there is a newer version too).

It was the second link that caught my eye – OpenLiveWriter. Screenshots looked very similar to Microsoft’s version and soon realized that it is based of Microsof’t version.

Good for Microsoft, that it decided to open it up and let community drive it (rather than have the code just die).  May be Google can learn from it (I would love to get Picasa back).

Enyo opensourced

Finally, HP/Palm started releasing source codes from webOS. The first one of the lot is Enyo framework.
http://blog.palm.com/palm/2012/01/today-were-excited-to-announce-that-weve-kicked-off-the-open-sourcing-of-the-webos-platform-by-releasing-the-first-piec.html

also check http://developer.palm.com/blog/?p=5085

The developers have started already posting "issues"
https://github.com/enyojs/enyo/issues which is good, as that's what an open source project should get, crowdsourced improvements. 

Linux and Microsoft

I sometime ponder about what would happen to all the Linux Servers running in United States Government Servers if Microsoft wins a law suite against various Linux vendors? Can US Government who do not like to be held at ransom by any large country of its size (aka China) like to be held on ransom by a corporate who thrives on US Government policies?