Some say Sun is as cool as OSCon (if not cooler) because, among
most companies that support OSCon, only Sun can produce truly
underground notes on OSCon.
David Van Couvering reviews Mike Olson's comments about his
keynote at OSCon and pontificates about whether the value of Open
Source could be limited to the collaboration it fosters. David
aptly notes that
Open source and an open community gives you the assurance that
the technology you are depending on is not going to be
discontinued or put into "maintenance mode," it won't be acquired
by someone who you would rather not do business with, and it
won't be used as leverage against you to extract money or modify
your behavior.
By way of further review, David contrasts MySQL as an Open Source
project to …
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