MySQL and closed-source

By drasch, on May 7th, 2008%

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 of . . . → Read More: MySQL and closed-source

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Return of Windows?

By drasch, on January 28th, 2007%

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 Backup DVD’s
music – Listen . . . → Read More: Return of Windows?

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sad day for open-source

By drasch, on October 22nd, 2006%

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 . . . → Read More: sad day for open-source

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