Mickos [Mårten] was recruited to lead open-source database provider MySQL AB in 2001 by chief technology officer and co-founder Michael “Monty” Widenius, a college classmate. Since then, the MySQL database has become one of the most popular open-source technologies around, used by many of the biggest Web 2.0 sites.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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mattflaschen
4 years 47 weeks 6 days 2 min ago
"Our customers are not against
"Our customers are not against us making money; it’s that they’re for freedom. So make as much money as you can, but don’t touch the freedom. That’s what they’re saying."
This man gets it.
tony
4 years 47 weeks 5 days 22 hours ago
Oh yesssss... MySql as a company
Oh yesssss...
MySql as a company simply didn't deserve the InnoDB "trick". That was just so bad, I couldn't believe it.
mattflaschen
4 years 47 weeks 5 days 12 hours ago
What trick?
What trick?
anna
4 years 47 weeks 5 days 11 hours ago
I think tonys talking about Oracle
I think tonys talking about Oracle that bought InnoDB and then the licensing deal was uncertain, for what I remember MySql lives off dual-licensing and they don't own the (C) for InnoDB, and now Oracle does. So they were looking for a replacement engine. First comment! But I am not really a geek.