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In response to Tristan's post which is in response to Aaron's post, the logo for Canonical is probably not accidental. Merriam-Webster defines canonical as:

of, relating to, or forming a canon

And a canon is:

a : an accepted principle or rule
b : a criterion or standard of judgment
c : a body of principles, rules, standards, or norms

But it also says canonical means:

conforming to a general rule or acceptable procedure

Which Canonical most certainly doesn't. Well, it may conform to free software, but certainly not to the widely accepted practices of proprietary software.

So, Canonical is a cannon designed to change/improve/destroy the currently canonical definition of how software is supposed to be created, sold and supported, thus forming the new software development canon? Sounds good to me.

My fellow blogger and former CDE colleague put up a few random thoughts mostly inspired by, it seems, by his trip to O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. I'll respond to a couple.

The trend seems to be: managers and accountants and investors have PCs, the hackers have Macs, the Ubergeeks have Linux.

Well, I guess that makes me an Ubergeek. Or not. But I do enjoy using Linux. However, with trends the way they are, Mac's may soon be losing their "elite" status and become much more common. Microsoft Vista is doing a great job of generating Mac converts.

A nice analogy to flawed project management practices regarding innovation: it’s like assuming that since it takes a woman 9 months to have a baby, all you need is 9 women to have a baby in a month.

A good point to remember from the (almost mythical itself) book "The Mythical Man Month." Just because you have more people doesn't mean you'll be able to program any faster, or generate ideas that are of any higher quality, or even generate more ideas. It takes quality people, quality time to come up with winners.

A couple more that don't need any comment:

Another nice project management thought: schedules are a shared hallucination.

Shouldn’t a medication that helps men stop having to go the bathroom dozens of times a day be called Flo-Min rather than Flo-Max?