I've had an LG G Watch R for a little over a month now and quite like it. I don't use it to run apps per se, but it is a good interface to the phone. Anything on Android that would cause a notification will appear on the watch, and I can dismiss them as needed. Of course, it doesn't replace the phone, but 9 times out of 10 I just want to see the notice not actually do anything. I review it here if you are interested: http://www.adventuresinoss.com...

This is what I have done: 1) create a document with all sensitive information (passwords, account numbers, etc.) 2) encrypt it with the keys of two tech-savvy friends 3) e-mail the file to two non-tech-savvy friends with instructions to send it to the people in step 2 upon my death I'm not sure what you would do if you don't have enough friends (grin) but this seems to be a pretty simple and robust solution for my needs.

I read a lot, but I don't own an eBook reader specifically because of the DRM. When I buy a physical book it's mine to keep, sell or share. The "Animal Farm" fiasco with the original Kindle scared me off investing on any eBooks, at least while the price point is so close to a paper book. Sell me a $25 book in eBook format for $1 and I'll live with the DRM. Sell me one for $23.95 and no deal. What I am waiting for is an eBook vendor to follow the lead of the Blu-ray/DVD industry and include a digital copy along with the physical one. If I could pay $25 for a hardback *and* get a digital copy I'd be there in an instant.

I don't do the books, so I don't know the revenue numbers, but I know we're profitable, and so far profit is always turned around into more growth -- generally developers or support.

As for our prices, we don't charge for software licenses at all, so we're infinitely less expensive than the big guys in that regard. ;)

When it comes to support, ours is insanely cheap compared to HP OpenView, IBM Tivoli, or any of the other big players we compete with, especially when you scale up. Of course, you can't comparison shop because HP and IBM and their like hide their (per-node) licensing and support prices behind channel partners and "have a salesperson call you," generally billing small customers with no clout a multiple per license what they charge for large customers for "volume discounts," despite the fact that it doesn't matter to the software itself how many nodes there are.

If you don't need support, OpenNMS is free, and always will be. Many people don't need it; there's a healthy community who can help. But the people who work for the .com side of things have been in network management for years, and if you want help on how to solve a particular monitoring problem, or want someone to call for help if something goes wrong, that's how we continue to be able to pay people full-time to make OpenNMS better.

Click through to the blog post. One of the founders, Brian Weaver, was at the party. He puts the official date around 1 July 1999.

Jinx!

(Disclaimer: I'm one of the OpenNMS developers.)

Depends on what you do in your enterprise. OpenNMS does a lot of useful stuff out of the box, but is a platform first, and an application second. OpenNMS's biggest strength is the breadth of ways to integrate it with other tools, and huge scalability (we have installations collecting millions of data points every 5 minutes, and monitoring devices with 50k interfaces each without breaking a sweat, replacing failing OpenView installations in large telcos). New features are new features, and we're pretty conservative in the scope of features that get put into the even (stable) releases. If you're running unstable, well, they're new features, and sometimes there are bugs... All a part of developing in the fish bowl.

And you don't need an account manager at the other end to yell at when you can get immediate support from someone with intimate knowledge of the system, that's how we've survived as a company while remaining true to being 100% open source software. No BS, just support which is all "level 3." Not that we typically have things that just cease to function without provocation, but without a bug report it's hard to answer that particular comment. ;)

I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and open source is definitely not a democracy. Democracies have the potential to devolve into rule by the mob. In the open source projects I am involved with, influence is based on merit. Those people who do the most work get to, ultimately, make the most decisions.

This doesn't mean that the casual user should have no input. But eventually someone has to make a decision: left vs. right, red vs. blue, etc. The beauty of open source is that if you don't like it, you can change it.