- Missed news redux.
- Commentary on the Apple laptop. I wish it was light rather than thin.
- Sun buys MySQL. I do not like this deal.
- Microsoft rumored to buy Logitech? Why? What is the point?
- Is Intel’s energy efficiency scheme a crock? One researcher thinks so.
- Associated Press and Reuters twist same story two different ways.
- Weird Microsoft patent sounds like it is from Stalin’s Russia.
#20 you came all the way here, said what you said and yet didn’t thank John for adding a volume control to the media player?
Need anyone point out that Open Source does not necessarily equate to Free Software? Last I checked, Sun was a business and thus desires to maximizing profits. At best, I see an eventual Microsoft-Fox scenario where Sun figures out how to make a database and keeps a stripped MySQL as a “Lite” version as free and creates MySQL Pro as the version that is not free ala SQL Express and SQL Server.
Folks – Oracle bought up their own dual-license-slinging, support-selling open source database company back in 2006 – Sleepycat (Berkeley DB). Two years on, Oracle has pushed Berkeley DB through three major releases, and they are still holding on to the original Sleepycat revenue model (support sales and dual licensing) and the DB is still open source.
Why does everyone assume that the only reason a profit seeking firm like Sun would buy up an OSS company is to make it proprietary? Remember that MySQL AB is a profit seeking company themselves!