MySQL and closed-source

Apparently someone at Sun agreed with my sentiments about moving to a more closed-source model for MySQL.

While my original comments are self serving, apparently Sun believes that it will make better business sense in the long term to keep these components open-source. Hopefully this is a vote of confidence for the quality . . . → Read More: MySQL and closed-source

Return of Windows?

I’ve been Linux-only on the desktop for 4 years now. And now, I’m considering adding Windows back to my daily life. Linux provides an excellent environment to do many of the things I do:

web – Web Browse remote administration – Use a terminal services – Run servers video – Transcode, edit, convert, and . . . → Read More: Return of Windows?

sad day for open-source

It’s a very sad day when the open-source community is forced to take a highly-successful, visible, driving project like Firefox and change its name to something like Iceweasel. By changing the name we lose invaluable branding and popularity for the Debian and other distributions that choose to make this distinction. This sort of decision . . . → Read More: sad day for open-source