As if it’s not bad enough that the combined technical might of the European Union cannot recognise the difference between a lousy browser (IE4), a lousy desktop (NO!!! It’s NOT Husky Handkerchief! It’s actually Active Desktop, which — despite what various senile old men in the legal community think — cannot simply be removed by deleting an icon), and the ham-fisted inability to download YetAnotherFerkinAlternative™ ... No, wait, I’ll start again.
Look, this is quite simple:
In many ways, MySQL embodies the ideals of the populist software movement known as open source.
In one other, fairly significant, way, it does not. How many zeros follow after the one in “a billion”, Big Bird?
The start-up company came out of nowhere…
... which is a little unfair on Scandinavia. I rather like that particular nowhere.
... building a database application beloved by vibrant, young Internet companies.
Ignoring the obvious vibrant young porn overtones, most of these idiots went bust ten years ago, as far as I remember.
Well, God bless the NYT, which still knows how to skewer the killer quote. Here’s Neelie Kroes:
*In the current economic context, all companies are looking for cost-effective I.T. solutions, and systems based on open-source software are increasingly emerging as viable alternatives to proprietary solutions.
The commission has to ensure that such alternatives would continue to be available.*
What a sweet little girl. I’m assuming she trained as a lawyer.
On behalf of all Europeans, I hereby apologise to those of you who are not lawyers, who do not suck six different types of scum before breakfast, and will at least occasionally ask an industry specialist (NB: not a ferking CONsultant) whether his statement makes sense. It’s not our fault. We don’t elect the burghers.
Oh yes. I got carried away. Apparently the GPL “solution” (now an Oracular Subsidiary of M$) is FUD. Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt ... and now the idiots in charge of the EU competition system can’t even be bothered to read three or so paragraphs of EULA. Now, we all know that the GPL is cretinous. But it’s not all that difficult to understand.
Fork these unelected ignoramuses. Fork the lot of them. I’ve used MySQL (I’ve even used Z80 assembler), but …
Put A Fork In It, Already!
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Seriously, if you sell your baby for a billion dollars, don’t complain when somebody else wants to put it to sleep. YOU SOLD IT FOR A BILLION DOLLARS. Be happy.
Meant that in a software way, not a human way, which I just noticed it came out as…
If you sell a real baby for a billion dollars, and it is killed, you should NOT be happy!
That’s OK, Frak. I only paid around $50,000 for somebody else’s baby.
Far as I know, she’s still OK; still six thousand miles away, and somewhat older, but fine and healthy and happy. It seemed like a good plan at the time.
I’ll never be able to fork “Ms C”, but I’m still happy enough. I’m at a loss to understand why a viking software ninny objects to being paid a billion dollars for something that can then be forked in any case.
I wish these cretins would get their stories straight. It’s either free or it’s paid for. It either works or it doesn’t.
The software universe is a very Manichaean universe. It has been since around the foundation of IBM. About time these nitwits recognised the fact.
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