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Log: Planet run at Tue Jan 5 19:00:13 CET 2010 File Changes: Directory: /marketing/www/planet/ ================================= File [changed]: atom.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/atom.xml?r1=1.2785&r2=1.2786 Delta lines: +41 -59 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2010-01-05 12:00:42+0000 1.2785 +++ atom.xml 2010-01-05 18:00:26+0000 1.2786 @@ -5,10 +5,37 @@ <link rel="self" href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml"/> <link href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/"/> <id>http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml</id> - <updated>2010-01-05T12:00:40+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-01-05T18:00:25+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">Monty Widenius wants another billion dollars, should we help him?</title> + <link href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/05/monty-widenius-wants-another-billion-dollars-should-we-help-him/"/> + <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/05/monty-widenius-wants-another-billion-dollars-should-we-help-him/</id> + <updated>2010-01-05T17:37:26+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p>Sometimes inbetween Christmas and New Year&#8217;s Eve, the &#8220;<a href="http://www.helpmysql.org">Help MySQL</a>&#8221; initiative was founded. This initiative, publicly supported by Monty Widenius, the co-founder of MySQL would be interesting if it wasn&#8217;t somehow indecent. Let me explain.</p> +<p>What does &#8220;Help MySQL&#8221; advocate, in a nutshell? It claims that if Oracle were to merge with Sun, MySQL customers would be trapped in a market that would be pretty much controlled and captured by Oracle, both through its existing propietary databases offerings and the acquisition of MySQL. Another issue explained on the web site is that the inherent free and open source nature of MySQL will not be enough to grant effective freedoms to the market since Oracle would be the sole copyright owner of the code and trademarks.</p> +<p>I think I will not be the only one to notice that in a whooping twist of history, Monty Widenius explains us why the business and contribution model to MySQL he crafted himself since the beginning of the database company is terrible for customers. I am always quite skeptical of the &#8220;do as I say not as I do&#8221; lines of thinking, but so be it, let&#8217;s carry along. For months now, Monty and his interesting (and interested) acolyte, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_M%C3%BCller">Florian Mueller</a>, have been lobbying everything that seems to be possibly lobbied, from the press to the European Commission where they seemed to have been giving a hard time to Oracle, confused the European anti-trust with byzantine arguments leading to have MySQL relicensed under the BSD <a href="http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20091021164738392">while portraying Microsoft as &#8220;understanding towards the Open Source ecosystem&#8221;</a>.</p> +<p>You might then ask, again, why would Monty want MySQL back, or separated from Oracle? What would Monty Widenius, co-founder of MySQL, and recently an advisor of the Microsoft&#8217;s Codeplex Foundation, counter Sun&#8217;s acquisition by Oracle after having left Sun as fast as he could have? There seems to be many reasons, at least on a personal level. One of them, as <a href="http://jan.wildeboer.net/2010/01/why-i-will-not-sign-the-mysql-petition/">Jan Wildeboer outlined today</a>, might be that Monty just does not want to leave the command of MySQL. The problem is that the &#8220;competitive case&#8221; just does not seem to exist here. Not only can anyone fork MySQL (Monty already did it by the way), but the database market is competitive enough to have other credible incumbents fill in the gap, if Oracle were to become.. carnivorous, which remains to be proven. But there are other reasons, some of whose can be foreseen if one thinks about the possible outcomes of Oracle&#8217;s walking away from the merger at the end of the month. Sun Microsystems lost several of its most profitable and large customers with the globlal financial crisis. It is doubtful whether Sun could actually survive in the end. Sun would then be sold by chunks, and I cannot wait to see who would buy MySQL back&#8230; Monty Widenius, a fellow of the Microsoft&#8217;s Codeplex Foundation, and a man who describes the <em>asserted and patented monopoly </em>as being &#8220;benevolent and understanding towards Open Source&#8221;. There you go, I know you must feel reassured that MySQL will end up in good hands if it does fall in Oracle&#8217;s portfolio.</p> +<p>Sun Microsystems being sold in chunks, or being merged with Oracle raises a lot of questions that I &#8216;m not aware Monty Widenius ever addressed in a constructive way: What about Java, OpenOffice.org, and OpenSolaris (other examples might also be found)? I have not heard a word from Monty Widenius. The future of ODF does not seem to be very important, just like, in the same way, his new colleague at the Codeplex Foundation, Miguel de Icaza, seems to think. Perhaps the quest for another billion is too important and therefore Monty just hasn&#8217;t found the time to think and focus about other issues. By helping MySQL, it seems to me you are also helping the personal wealth of a billionaire who calls evil what some might do in the future while forgetting he did the same before.</p> +<p>All things considered, I am not really excited at the prospect of &#8220;saving MySQL&#8221;, and neither should you. For 2010, let&#8217;s rather focus on constructive conversations and projects.</p> +<p>Happy New Year 2010!</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=150&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_150" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></content> + <author> + <name>Charles Schulz</name> + <uri>http://standardsandfreedom.net</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards » OOo Postings</title> + <subtitle type="html">A weblog by Charles-H. Schulz.</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed"/> + <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed</id> + <updated>2010-01-05T18:00:16+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry xml:lang="en"> <title type="html">Some predictions for 2010</title> <link href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/12/30/some-predictions-for-2010/"/> <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/12/30/some-predictions-for-2010/</id> @@ -34,7 +61,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">A weblog by Charles-H. Schulz.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed"/> <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed</id> - <updated>2010-01-03T18:00:15+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-01-05T18:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -65,7 +92,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/</id> - <updated>2010-01-05T12:00:24+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-01-05T18:00:15+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -108,7 +135,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2010-01-05T12:00:26+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-01-05T18:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -146,7 +173,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2010-01-05T12:00:26+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-01-05T18:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -172,7 +199,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">A weblog by Charles-H. Schulz.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed"/> <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed</id> - <updated>2010-01-03T18:00:15+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-01-05T18:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -198,7 +225,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2010-01-05T12:00:26+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-01-05T18:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -218,7 +245,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/</id> - <updated>2010-01-05T12:00:24+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-01-05T18:00:15+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -239,7 +266,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/"/> <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/</id> - <updated>2010-01-05T12:00:24+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-01-05T18:00:15+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -356,7 +383,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2010-01-05T12:00:26+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-01-05T18:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -380,7 +407,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2010-01-05T12:00:26+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-01-05T18:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -406,7 +433,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">A weblog by Charles-H. Schulz.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed"/> <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed</id> - <updated>2010-01-03T18:00:15+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-01-05T18:00:16+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -426,7 +453,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2010-01-05T12:00:26+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-01-05T18:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -545,52 +572,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2010-01-05T12:00:26+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry> - <title type="html">New: OOo-DEV 3.2.0 Developer Snapshot (build OOO320_m7) available</title> - <link href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_26"/> - <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/f95eaa0b9d205688</id> - <updated>2009-12-04T10:01:48+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p><b>Developer Snapshot build OOo-Dev OOO320_m7</b> which installs as OOo-DEV 3.2.0 has been uploaded.</p> - <p><b></b>The previously report issue is now fixed in this milestone: <a href="http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=107239">i107239</a> (Java GUI installer doesn't work).<br /></p> - <p>If you find severe issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker. </p> - <p>Please use the following link:<br /><a title="Download page" href="http://download.openoffice.org/next">http://download.openoffice.org/next</a></p> - <p>Release Notes:<br /><a title="Release Notes" href="http://development.openoffice.org/releases/OOO320_m7_snapshot.html">http://development.openoffice.org/releases/OOO320_m7_snapshot.html</a><br /></p> - <p>MD5 checksums:<br /><a href="http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/OOO320_m7_md5sums.txt" title="Page containing MD5 checksums">http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/OOO320_m7_md5sums.txt</a></p></content> - <author> - <name>Marcus Lange</name> - <uri></uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> - <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> - <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2010-01-05T12:00:26+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry> - <title type="html">New: OOo-DEV 3.x Developer Snapshot (build DEV300_m66) available</title> - <link href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_x20"/> - <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/059491b9db3a37fe</id> - <updated>2009-12-03T09:16:08+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p><b>Developer Snapshot build OOo-Dev DEV300_m66</b> which still installs as OOo-DEV 3.2 (see <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=107355">i107355</a>) is available for download.<br /></p> - <p>If you find severe issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker.<br /> </p> - <p>Please use the following link:<br /><a title="Download page" href="http://download.openoffice.org/next">http://download.openoffice.org/next</a></p> - <p>Release Notes:<br /><a title="Release Notes" href="http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300_m66_snapshot.html">http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300_m66_snapshot.html</a><br /></p> - <p>MD5 checksums:<br /><a href="http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300_m66_md5sums.txt" title="Page containing MD5 checksums">http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300_m66_md5sums.txt</a></p></content> - <author> - <name>Marcus Lange</name> - <uri></uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> - <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> - <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2010-01-05T12:00:26+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-01-05T18:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.2792&r2=1.2793 Delta lines: +24 -40 --------------------- --- index.html 2010-01-05 12:00:43+0000 1.2792 +++ index.html 2010-01-05 18:00:27+0000 1.2793 @@ -37,8 +37,31 @@ <a href="rss20.xml"><img src="rss2.gif" alt="Link to RSS 2 feed" /></a> </div> -<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: January 05, 2010 12:00 PM CET</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: January 05, 2010 06:00 PM CET</em></p> +<h2>January 05, 2010</h2> +<h3> +<a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net"; title="Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards » OOo Postings"> +Charles Schulz</a> : +<a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/05/monty-widenius-wants-another-billion-dollars-should-we-help-him/";> +Monty Widenius wants another billion dollars, should we help him?</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>Sometimes inbetween Christmas and New Year’s Eve, the “<a href="http://www.helpmysql.org";>Help MySQL</a>” initiative was founded. This initiative, publicly supported by Monty Widenius, the co-founder of MySQL would be interesting if it wasn’t somehow indecent. Let me explain.</p> +<p>What does “Help MySQL” advocate, in a nutshell? It claims that if Oracle were to merge with Sun, MySQL customers would be trapped in a market that would be pretty much controlled and captured by Oracle, both through its existing propietary databases offerings and the acquisition of MySQL. Another issue explained on the web site is that the inherent free and open source nature of MySQL will not be enough to grant effective freedoms to the market since Oracle would be the sole copyright owner of the code and trademarks.</p> +<p>I think I will not be the only one to notice that in a whooping twist of history, Monty Widenius explains us why the business and contribution model to MySQL he crafted himself since the beginning of the database company is terrible for customers. I am always quite skeptical of the “do as I say not as I do” lines of thinking, but so be it, let’s carry along. For months now, Monty and his interesting (and interested) acolyte, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_M%C3%BCller";>Florian Mueller</a>, have been lobbying everything that seems to be possibly lobbied, from the press to the European Commission where they seemed to have been giving a hard time to Oracle, confused the European anti-trust with byzantine arguments leading to have MySQL relicensed under the BSD <a href="http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20091021164738392";>while portraying Microsoft as “understanding towards the Open Source ecosystem”</a>.</p> +<p>You might then ask, again, why would Monty want MySQL back, or separated from Oracle? What would Monty Widenius, co-founder of MySQL, and recently an advisor of the Microsoft’s Codeplex Foundation, counter Sun’s acquisition by Oracle after having left Sun as fast as he could have? There seems to be many reasons, at least on a personal level. One of them, as <a href="http://jan.wildeboer.net/2010/01/why-i-will-not-sign-the-mysql-petition/";>Jan Wildeboer outlined today</a>, might be that Monty just does not want to leave the command of MySQL. The problem is that the “competitive case” just does not seem to exist here. Not only can anyone fork MySQL (Monty already did it by the way), but the database market is competitive enough to have other credible incumbents fill in the gap, if Oracle were to become.. carnivorous, which remains to be proven. But there are other reasons, some of whose can be foreseen if one thinks about the possible outcomes of Oracle’s walking away from the merger at the end of the month. Sun Microsystems lost several of its most profitable and large customers with the globlal financial crisis. It is doubtful whether Sun could actually survive in the end. Sun would then be sold by chunks, and I cannot wait to see who would buy MySQL back… Monty Widenius, a fellow of the Microsoft’s Codeplex Foundation, and a man who describes the <em>asserted and patented monopoly </em>as being “benevolent and understanding towards Open Source”. There you go, I know you must feel reassured that MySQL will end up in good hands if it does fall in Oracle’s portfolio.</p> +<p>Sun Microsystems being sold in chunks, or being merged with Oracle raises a lot of questions that I ‘m not aware Monty Widenius ever addressed in a constructive way: What about Java, OpenOffice.org, and OpenSolaris (other examples might also be found)? I have not heard a word from Monty Widenius. The future of ODF does not seem to be very important, just like, in the same way, his new colleague at the Codeplex Foundation, Miguel de Icaza, seems to think. Perhaps the quest for another billion is too important and therefore Monty just hasn’t found the time to think and focus about other issues. By helping MySQL, it seems to me you are also helping the personal wealth of a billionaire who calls evil what some might do in the future while forgetting he did the same before.</p> +<p>All things considered, I am not really excited at the prospect of “saving MySQL”, and neither should you. For 2010, let’s rather focus on constructive conversations and projects.</p> +<p>Happy New Year 2010!</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=150&akst_action=share-this"; title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_150" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/05/monty-widenius-wants-another-billion-dollars-should-we-help-him/";>by Charles at January 05, 2010 05:37 PM CET</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>December 30, 2009</h2> <h3> <a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net"; title="Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards » OOo Postings"> @@ -526,45 +549,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h2>December 04, 2009</h2> -<h3> -<a href="" title="jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader"> -GullFOSS</a> : -<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_26";> -New: OOo-DEV 3.2.0 Developer Snapshot (build OOO320_m7) available</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p><b>Developer Snapshot build OOo-Dev OOO320_m7</b> which installs as OOo-DEV 3.2.0 has been uploaded.</p> - <p><b></b>The previously report issue is now fixed in this milestone: <a href="http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=107239";>i107239</a> (Java GUI installer doesn't work).<br /></p> - <p>If you find severe issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker. </p> - <p>Please use the following link:<br /><a title="Download page" href="http://download.openoffice.org/next";>http://download.openoffice.org/next</a></p> - <p>Release Notes:<br /><a title="Release Notes" href="http://development.openoffice.org/releases/OOO320_m7_snapshot.html";>http://development.openoffice.org/releases/OOO320_m7_snapshot.html</a><br /></p> - <p>MD5 checksums:<br /><a href="http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/OOO320_m7_md5sums.txt"; title="Page containing MD5 checksums">http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/OOO320_m7_md5sums.txt</a></p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_26";>by Marcus Lange at December 04, 2009 10:01 AM CET</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> -<h2>December 03, 2009</h2> -<h3> -<a href="" title="jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader"> -GullFOSS</a> : -<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_x20";> -New: OOo-DEV 3.x Developer Snapshot (build DEV300_m66) available</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p><b>Developer Snapshot build OOo-Dev DEV300_m66</b> which still installs as OOo-DEV 3.2 (see <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=107355";>i107355</a>) is available for download.<br /></p> - <p>If you find severe issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker.<br /> </p> - <p>Please use the following link:<br /><a title="Download page" href="http://download.openoffice.org/next";>http://download.openoffice.org/next</a></p> - <p>Release Notes:<br /><a title="Release Notes" href="http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300_m66_snapshot.html";>http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300_m66_snapshot.html</a><br /></p> - <p>MD5 checksums:<br /><a href="http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300_m66_md5sums.txt"; title="Page containing MD5 checksums">http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300_m66_md5sums.txt</a></p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_x20";>by Marcus Lange at December 03, 2009 09:16 AM CET</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> <a id="disclaimer" name="disclaimer"></a> <p><em>Disclaimer: all views expressed on this page are those of the individual contributors, and may not reflect the views of the File [changed]: opml.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/opml.xml?r1=1.2785&r2=1.2786 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2010-01-05 12:00:43+0000 1.2785 +++ opml.xml 2010-01-05 18:00:27+0000 1.2786 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:00:40 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:00:25 +0000</dateModified> <ownerName>Marketing Project</ownerName> <ownerEmail>[email protected]</ownerEmail> </head> File [changed]: rss10.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss10.xml?r1=1.903&r2=1.904 Delta lines: +15 -25 --------------------- --- rss10.xml 2009-12-30 18:00:26+0000 1.903 +++ rss10.xml 2010-01-05 18:00:27+0000 1.904 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/05/monty-widenius-wants-another-billion-dollars-should-we-help-him/"; 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initiative was founded. This initiative, publicly supported by Monty Widenius, the co-founder of MySQL would be interesting if it wasn&#8217;t somehow indecent. Let me explain.</p> +<p>What does &#8220;Help MySQL&#8221; advocate, in a nutshell? It claims that if Oracle were to merge with Sun, MySQL customers would be trapped in a market that would be pretty much controlled and captured by Oracle, both through its existing propietary databases offerings and the acquisition of MySQL. Another issue explained on the web site is that the inherent free and open source nature of MySQL will not be enough to grant effective freedoms to the market since Oracle would be the sole copyright owner of the code and trademarks.</p> +<p>I think I will not be the only one to notice that in a whooping twist of history, Monty Widenius explains us why the business and contribution model to MySQL he crafted himself since the beginning of the database company is terrible for customers. I am always quite skeptical of the &#8220;do as I say not as I do&#8221; lines of thinking, but so be it, let&#8217;s carry along. For months now, Monty and his interesting (and interested) acolyte, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_M%C3%BCller">Florian Mueller</a>, have been lobbying everything that seems to be possibly lobbied, from the press to the European Commission where they seemed to have been giving a hard time to Oracle, confused the European anti-trust with byzantine arguments leading to have MySQL relicensed under the BSD <a href="http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20091021164738392">while portraying Microsoft as &#8220;understanding towards the Open Source ecosystem&#8221;</a>.</p> +<p>You might then ask, again, why would Monty want MySQL back, or separated from Oracle? What would Monty Widenius, co-founder of MySQL, and recently an advisor of the Microsoft&#8217;s Codeplex Foundation, counter Sun&#8217;s acquisition by Oracle after having left Sun as fast as he could have? There seems to be many reasons, at least on a personal level. One of them, as <a href="http://jan.wildeboer.net/2010/01/why-i-will-not-sign-the-mysql-petition/">Jan Wildeboer outlined today</a>, might be that Monty just does not want to leave the command of MySQL. The problem is that the &#8220;competitive case&#8221; just does not seem to exist here. Not only can anyone fork MySQL (Monty already did it by the way), but the database market is competitive enough to have other credible incumbents fill in the gap, if Oracle were to become.. carnivorous, which remains to be proven. But there are other reasons, some of whose can be foreseen if one thinks about the possible outcomes of Oracle&#8217;s walking away from the merger at the end of the month. Sun Microsystems lost several of its most profitable and large customers with the globlal financial crisis. It is doubtful whether Sun could actually survive in the end. Sun would then be sold by chunks, and I cannot wait to see who would buy MySQL back&#8230; Monty Widenius, a fellow of the Microsoft&#8217;s Codeplex Foundation, and a man who describes the <em>asserted and patented monopoly </em>as being &#8220;benevolent and understanding towards Open Source&#8221;. There you go, I know you must feel reassured that MySQL will end up in good hands if it does fall in Oracle&#8217;s portfolio.</p> +<p>Sun Microsystems being sold in chunks, or being merged with Oracle raises a lot of questions that I &#8216;m not aware Monty Widenius ever addressed in a constructive way: What about Java, OpenOffice.org, and OpenSolaris (other examples might also be found)? I have not heard a word from Monty Widenius. The future of ODF does not seem to be very important, just like, in the same way, his new colleague at the Codeplex Foundation, Miguel de Icaza, seems to think. Perhaps the quest for another billion is too important and therefore Monty just hasn&#8217;t found the time to think and focus about other issues. By helping MySQL, it seems to me you are also helping the personal wealth of a billionaire who calls evil what some might do in the future while forgetting he did the same before.</p> +<p>All things considered, I am not really excited at the prospect of &#8220;saving MySQL&#8221;, and neither should you. For 2010, let&#8217;s rather focus on constructive conversations and projects.</p> +<p>Happy New Year 2010!</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=150&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_150" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2010-01-05T17:37:26+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/12/30/some-predictions-for-2010/";> <title>Charles Schulz: Some predictions for 2010</title> <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/12/30/some-predictions-for-2010/</link> @@ -406,28 +419,5 @@ <dc:date>2009-12-07T09:04:53+00:00</dc:date> <dc:creator>Elizabeth Matthis</dc:creator> </item> -<item rdf:about="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/f95eaa0b9d205688"> - <title>GullFOSS: New: OOo-DEV 3.2.0 Developer Snapshot (build OOO320_m7) available</title> - <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_26</link> - <content:encoded><p><b>Developer Snapshot build OOo-Dev OOO320_m7</b> which installs as OOo-DEV 3.2.0 has been uploaded.</p> - <p><b></b>The previously report issue is now fixed in this milestone: <a href="http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=107239">i107239</a> (Java GUI installer doesn't work).<br /></p> - <p>If you find severe issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker. </p> - <p>Please use the following link:<br /><a title="Download page" href="http://download.openoffice.org/next">http://download.openoffice.org/next</a></p> - <p>Release Notes:<br /><a title="Release Notes" href="http://development.openoffice.org/releases/OOO320_m7_snapshot.html">http://development.openoffice.org/releases/OOO320_m7_snapshot.html</a><br /></p> - <p>MD5 checksums:<br /><a href="http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/OOO320_m7_md5sums.txt" title="Page containing MD5 checksums">http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/OOO320_m7_md5sums.txt</a></p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2009-12-04T10:01:48+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>Marcus Lange</dc:creator> -</item> -<item rdf:about="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/059491b9db3a37fe"> - <title>GullFOSS: New: OOo-DEV 3.x Developer Snapshot (build DEV300_m66) available</title> - <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_x20</link> - <content:encoded><p><b>Developer Snapshot build OOo-Dev DEV300_m66</b> which still installs as OOo-DEV 3.2 (see <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=107355">i107355</a>) is available for download.<br /></p> - <p>If you find severe issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker.<br /> </p> - <p>Please use the following link:<br /><a title="Download page" href="http://download.openoffice.org/next">http://download.openoffice.org/next</a></p> - <p>Release Notes:<br /><a title="Release Notes" href="http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300_m66_snapshot.html">http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300_m66_snapshot.html</a><br /></p> - <p>MD5 checksums:<br /><a href="http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300_m66_md5sums.txt" title="Page containing MD5 checksums">http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300_m66_md5sums.txt</a></p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2009-12-03T09:16:08+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>Marcus Lange</dc:creator> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.903&r2=1.904 Delta lines: +15 -23 --------------------- --- rss20.xml 2009-12-30 18:00:26+0000 1.903 +++ rss20.xml 2010-01-05 18:00:27+0000 1.904 @@ -8,6 +8,21 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Charles Schulz: Monty Widenius wants another billion dollars, should we help him?</title> + <guid>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/05/monty-widenius-wants-another-billion-dollars-should-we-help-him/</guid> + <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/05/monty-widenius-wants-another-billion-dollars-should-we-help-him/</link> + <description><p>Sometimes inbetween Christmas and New Year&#8217;s Eve, the &#8220;<a href="http://www.helpmysql.org">Help MySQL</a>&#8221; initiative was founded. This initiative, publicly supported by Monty Widenius, the co-founder of MySQL would be interesting if it wasn&#8217;t somehow indecent. Let me explain.</p> +<p>What does &#8220;Help MySQL&#8221; advocate, in a nutshell? It claims that if Oracle were to merge with Sun, MySQL customers would be trapped in a market that would be pretty much controlled and captured by Oracle, both through its existing propietary databases offerings and the acquisition of MySQL. Another issue explained on the web site is that the inherent free and open source nature of MySQL will not be enough to grant effective freedoms to the market since Oracle would be the sole copyright owner of the code and trademarks.</p> +<p>I think I will not be the only one to notice that in a whooping twist of history, Monty Widenius explains us why the business and contribution model to MySQL he crafted himself since the beginning of the database company is terrible for customers. I am always quite skeptical of the &#8220;do as I say not as I do&#8221; lines of thinking, but so be it, let&#8217;s carry along. For months now, Monty and his interesting (and interested) acolyte, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_M%C3%BCller">Florian Mueller</a>, have been lobbying everything that seems to be possibly lobbied, from the press to the European Commission where they seemed to have been giving a hard time to Oracle, confused the European anti-trust with byzantine arguments leading to have MySQL relicensed under the BSD <a href="http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20091021164738392">while portraying Microsoft as &#8220;understanding towards the Open Source ecosystem&#8221;</a>.</p> +<p>You might then ask, again, why would Monty want MySQL back, or separated from Oracle? What would Monty Widenius, co-founder of MySQL, and recently an advisor of the Microsoft&#8217;s Codeplex Foundation, counter Sun&#8217;s acquisition by Oracle after having left Sun as fast as he could have? There seems to be many reasons, at least on a personal level. One of them, as <a href="http://jan.wildeboer.net/2010/01/why-i-will-not-sign-the-mysql-petition/">Jan Wildeboer outlined today</a>, might be that Monty just does not want to leave the command of MySQL. The problem is that the &#8220;competitive case&#8221; just does not seem to exist here. Not only can anyone fork MySQL (Monty already did it by the way), but the database market is competitive enough to have other credible incumbents fill in the gap, if Oracle were to become.. carnivorous, which remains to be proven. But there are other reasons, some of whose can be foreseen if one thinks about the possible outcomes of Oracle&#8217;s walking away from the merger at the end of the month. Sun Microsystems lost several of its most profitable and large customers with the globlal financial crisis. It is doubtful whether Sun could actually survive in the end. Sun would then be sold by chunks, and I cannot wait to see who would buy MySQL back&#8230; Monty Widenius, a fellow of the Microsoft&#8217;s Codeplex Foundation, and a man who describes the <em>asserted and patented monopoly </em>as being &#8220;benevolent and understanding towards Open Source&#8221;. There you go, I know you must feel reassured that MySQL will end up in good hands if it does fall in Oracle&#8217;s portfolio.</p> +<p>Sun Microsystems being sold in chunks, or being merged with Oracle raises a lot of questions that I &#8216;m not aware Monty Widenius ever addressed in a constructive way: What about Java, OpenOffice.org, and OpenSolaris (other examples might also be found)? I have not heard a word from Monty Widenius. The future of ODF does not seem to be very important, just like, in the same way, his new colleague at the Codeplex Foundation, Miguel de Icaza, seems to think. Perhaps the quest for another billion is too important and therefore Monty just hasn&#8217;t found the time to think and focus about other issues. By helping MySQL, it seems to me you are also helping the personal wealth of a billionaire who calls evil what some might do in the future while forgetting he did the same before.</p> +<p>All things considered, I am not really excited at the prospect of &#8220;saving MySQL&#8221;, and neither should you. For 2010, let&#8217;s rather focus on constructive conversations and projects.</p> +<p>Happy New Year 2010!</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=150&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_150" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></description> + <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:37:26 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>Charles Schulz: Some predictions for 2010</title> <guid>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/12/30/some-predictions-for-2010/</guid> <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/12/30/some-predictions-for-2010/</link> @@ -387,29 +402,6 @@ <br /> </p></description> <pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:04:53 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>GullFOSS: New: OOo-DEV 3.2.0 Developer Snapshot (build OOO320_m7) available</title> - <guid>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/f95eaa0b9d205688</guid> - <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_26</link> - <description><p><b>Developer Snapshot build OOo-Dev OOO320_m7</b> which installs as OOo-DEV 3.2.0 has been uploaded.</p> - <p><b></b>The previously report issue is now fixed in this milestone: <a href="http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=107239">i107239</a> (Java GUI installer doesn't work).<br /></p> - <p>If you find severe issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker. </p> - <p>Please use the following link:<br /><a title="Download page" href="http://download.openoffice.org/next">http://download.openoffice.org/next</a></p> - <p>Release Notes:<br /><a title="Release Notes" href="http://development.openoffice.org/releases/OOO320_m7_snapshot.html">http://development.openoffice.org/releases/OOO320_m7_snapshot.html</a><br /></p> - <p>MD5 checksums:<br /><a href="http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/OOO320_m7_md5sums.txt" title="Page containing MD5 checksums">http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/OOO320_m7_md5sums.txt</a></p></description> - <pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:01:48 +0000</pubDate> -</item> -<item> - <title>GullFOSS: New: OOo-DEV 3.x Developer Snapshot (build DEV300_m66) available</title> - <guid>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/059491b9db3a37fe</guid> - <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_x20</link> - <description><p><b>Developer Snapshot build OOo-Dev DEV300_m66</b> which still installs as OOo-DEV 3.2 (see <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=107355">i107355</a>) is available for download.<br /></p> - <p>If you find severe issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker.<br /> </p> - <p>Please use the following link:<br /><a title="Download page" href="http://download.openoffice.org/next">http://download.openoffice.org/next</a></p> - <p>Release Notes:<br /><a title="Release Notes" href="http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300_m66_snapshot.html">http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300_m66_snapshot.html</a><br /></p> - <p>MD5 checksums:<br /><a href="http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300_m66_md5sums.txt" title="Page containing MD5 checksums">http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300_m66_md5sums.txt</a></p></description> - <pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:16:08 +0000</pubDate> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
