It's my company's logo - I work for Rackspace Hosting.

My thoughts exactly.

Still, it would be quite embarrassing to be publicly named so that others besides Apple knew who was to blame for the mistake.

For the line party :)

Really hoping this rumor is true - not that I need to buy another "pad" device (yes, I stood in line for an iPad) - but I'd really like to see how the Closed vs. Open platform models play out. Best case: Apple revises its Closed stance in response to a thriving gPad ecosystem.

I really like my iProducts, but having been a proponent of open platforms for so long I am uneasy at the tight hold Apple holds over developers and users.

For example, why hasn't Apple approved the Opera Mini yet? I'd welcome a choice in browsers, personally.

I too offer my congratulations to PJ and the hard working Groklaw community. When I started reading her blog in the Spring of 2003 there was a lot of confusion as to the future of Linux and even the GPL. How a company that owed it's existence to Linux and the GPL (I'm referring to Caldera which became The SCO Group) could turn on the whole community as it did was a dark time in business.

Of course nearly every claim was proven false (with the possible exception of errno.h and some drivers submitted by SGI, IIRC) due to the unrelenting research by PJ and so many others in the Groklaw community. She and they proved that an open community can be more powerful than elite lawyers and companies funded by deep pockets.

This work truly belongs in the LOC and should be studied and emulated.

I watch Social Media mentions of things I care about very closely. I've explained to others how I've come to realize there is a definite "canary effect" with the mass sentiment seen via real-time opinion/view venues such as Twitter.

In fact, for items related to "down time" of sites people are routinely faster at registering their dismay at a service being unavailable than expensive site monitoring tools. This isn't exactly predicting future outcomes, but it is an "early warning" indicator that businesses should tap into.

Personally, I use simple scripts that hit the Twitter Search API and send alerts to me and others via IM, email, etc. Not as pretty as $2000/mo monitoring systems, but quite effective.

Since the mid 90's I've been a user of FOSS projects and products for business use - contributing where and when I can - and I've been a long time customer of Rackspace since 2001 and an employee since Jan 2007... I must say I'm thrilled by the moves my company has been making to not only be a major consumer of Open Source products but also now a major contributor to such projects. From open Cloud architecture APIs and API specifications (enabling anyone to build their own Cloud hosting systems) to big-data focused projects like Cassandra and, of course, Drizzle.

Sorry to gush here...it's just that so many companies tend to nominally use Open Source to gain market share and free development help initially and then begin to restrict documentation, support and even access to new features in a dual licensing scheme. The list of names of those that "SCO-ify" their Open Source strategy is too long and sad to mention. So, please cut me some slack as I revel in the direction we're heading at Rackspace -- I hope more companies will jump on this trend to raise the sea level for us all.

To the Drizzle team: welcome! Very happy to have you onboard and look forward to your continued contributions to the community.

Note: my comments and gushing are my own!

On a development project we banned LOL and insisted on the more accurate LIMH - laughing in my head. No one LOLs online.