] For large UNIX projects, the traditional method of building the
] project is to use recursive make. On some projects, this results in
] build times which are unacceptably large, when all you want to do is
] change one file. In examining the source of the overly long build
] times, it became evident that a number of apparently unrelated
] problems combine to produce the delay, but on analysis all have the
] same root cause.

] This paper explores an number of problems regarding the use of
] recursive make, and shows that they are all symptoms of the same
] problem. Symptoms that the UNIX community have long accepted as a
] fact of life, but which need not be endured any longer. These
] problems include recursive makes which take ``forever'' to work out
] that they need to do nothing, recursive makes which do too much, or
] too little, recursive makes which are overly sensitive to changes in
] the source code and require constant Makefile intervention to keep
] them working.

I'm increasingly of the opinion that make by itself is an inadequate tool. This inadequacy is evidenced by the existence of autoconf, automake and libtool. All of this functionality could be provided by a few perl modules and you would have Makefile.pl or something...

Recursive make Considered Harmful

] A GROUP from the open source / free software community
] has put together a response to SCO CEO Darl McBride's
] "Open Letter to the Open Source Community". The INQUIRER
] is glad to print Groklaw's "Dear Darl" letter, along with
] their research.

Neat.

Groklaw sends a Dear Darl letter

] The Dell of software?
]
] Sun's latest plan to convince the world that it has a
] future

This may well be Sun's last stand. They can't beat Dell at hardware (at least not for machines costing less than $50k) and they can't beat IBM at integration/consulting/service.

Economist.com | Sun Microsystems

] Intel Corp. has built a prototype of a "personal server"
] that could become the personal multimedia diary of the
] future.

Interesting idea....

Intel Foretells 'Personal Server'

]
]
] BEIJING (AP) -- China has blocked 127 spam servers around
] the world in its latest battle against junk mail on the
] Internet, the official Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday.

Wow ... China's getting on board.

InformationWeek : Spam : China Launches Anti-Spam Attack : September 9, 2003

] After more than 20 years at Sun Microsystems Inc.,
] cofounder and Chief Scientist Bill Joy is leaving the
] company, Sun announced Tuesday.

Hmmmm....

ITworld.com - Bill Joy to leave Sun

] There's no free lunch here. Sun can't placate SCO and
] also respect the intellectual property rights of the
] Linux kernel developers. If there's to be a Sun Linux,
] then it will carry the same phantom taint as Red Hat
] Linux or SuSE Linux or SCO's own UnitedLinux offering.

The game Sun's trying to play with SCO.

A License Paradox