Thank to Andreano Lanusse for posting a link which confirms some of worries about the current state of the MySQL as an Open Source project discussed earlier: Michael Widenius (often called Monty), the main author of the original version of the open-source MySQL database and a founding member of the MySQL AB Read more
This seems to be a week of announcements: HD-DVD and now Microsoft is in the news again. As it was announced Feb 21, 2008 Microsoft announced a set of broad-reaching changes to its technology and business practices to increase the openness of its products and drive greater interoperability, opportunity and Read more
As it appeared Microsoft did not stopped at changing licensing for .Net source code. As it was reported by BetaNews this Friday Now developers no longer need to request access to the binary file format (for Office 2003) documentation in writing or by mail, the spokesperson said; they can now Read more
Microsoft was accused for many years in their secrecy about internals of the Frameworks and being overprotective when it comes to the point of someone looking at it. No-one was allowed to look at the code for the purpose of to see how it works. I, as a Pascal/Delphi developer Read more