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Way to go Jonathan
via Milking The GNU by milkingTheGNU on May 10, 2008
Three weeks ago Milking The GNU was suggesting to SUN a few directions for MySQL. They were articulated around 4 messages: Give the business of dealing w/ large customers customers to RedHat Plug MySQL into the cloud so that to tackle with the long tail and beat up ORCL and...
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The Farmer and the Nomad
via Milking The GNU by milkingTheGNU on May 07, 2008
About 10,000 years ago, settlers in the Fertile Crescent and in China started developing tools that would allow the birth of agriculture. During the following few 1,000 years, those new born farmers started to go West, colonizing adjacent territories and finally all Western Europe. Recent genetic studies like that of...
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Smoking the cloud: the technology of cloud computing
via Milking The GNU by milkingTheGNU on May 12, 2008
Everybody is getting high on cloud computing. Clouds are really all over the place. There is only one catch: it keeps everybody's mind hazy. For instance Gordon Haff from c|net writes: Software as a Service (SaaS), Hardware as a Service(HaaS), Data as a Service (DaaS), and Web 2.0 are all part of thecloud. Even hosting providers are a sort of specialized, narrow case.Sure SaaS, HaaS (go...
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The GNU GPL is contagious. So what?
via Milking The GNU by milkingTheGNU on May 12, 2008
... so that to foster the growth of GPL-covered code and to provide enough stability for nomadic communities to build upon it. And yes by saying that there is a slight risk of propagating FUD but it is largely subsumed by the much greater goal of allowing people and companies to better understand open source and the GNU GPL. If we keep mincing the words, beating around the bush, it’s not...
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An alternative to Dual Licensing
via Milking The GNU by milkingTheGNU on May 13, 2008
In a previous post, we have made our point that dual licensing was unfair and community debilitating. In a search for a better solution, I met this weekend with Ludovic Dubost CEO, Founder and original contributor of xWiki.xWiki.com is making its income out of enterprise support, software guarantees and integration projects. This last part being a substantial source of revenues for xWiki.com...
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