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Hey look!  I've got an opinion on MySQL too!

As far as I can tell, this doesn't change anything except that Sun will begin to collect the support contract revenue.

I suspect that even if Sun did absolutely nothing to the code, this purchase would pay for itself eventually, but I'm confident that Sun/MySQL will not sit on their hands.  Which makes me think there's a lot more coming back from this.

So as MySQL gets better, more support contracts, more money.  I simply cannot see this as a bad thing.

Dropping a $billion might be a bit shocking, but it smacks of fantastic financial health to me.  They either have it in cash, or they have a plan good enough to convince a lender that it was a great idea.  Either way, it still means Sun has the means to spend the money to make money.

I was trying to post this in response to Ben Rockwood but all I got was "Spam is not appreciated" so I must have done something wrong at some point.

So there it is.  My opinion.  It's not deep, or well-reasoned.  But it's mine.

I was surfing about and found a Mac OS X software deal that seems too good to be true:

Here's my invitation for you to have a look.  Clicking this link will credit me for having invited you.  I'm just letting you know so that the hostile full-disclosure-police won't attack me:

    https://www.macheist.com/buy/invite/97623

Thanks. 

I was in the Boston area last week (Bedford/Burlington to be accurate) on the Middlesex Turnpike where I saw a car with a bumper sticker that read:

  More trees
  Less Bush

Which I understood as some form of Eco-Political statement about loving the environment and not preferring the current administration (or possibly the former Bush administration).  Whatever.

The funny thing was...  as we slowed down for this car to make a left turn, they flicked out a lit cigarette which made the bumper sticker all the more ironic.

No matter what the bumper sticker says, this person doesn't love the environment and no matter who's in office they would hate them because they have no respect for authority (such as the littering laws).

All hail the god of do whatever I want.  Membership is the cost of a bumper sticker.

If you love the environment, keep your butts to yourself and just by accident you might actually show some form of respect for the rest of us.

I'm pretty fond of this:

In my ~/.exrc file I have mapped "F" to format from the current
location to the end of the paragraph:

    $ cat .exrc
    :map F !}fmt -65

I'm pretty sure this is not an original thought.  I'll give
credit to the man page of fmt and probably "UNIX Power Tools" I
like it because it formats my plain old ASCII text to 65
columns.

I've been doing this for more than ten years, and when I get a
new account it's one of the first things I notice missing, so I
repair it right away.

It sounds trivial, I'm sure, but there it is...  one of my
quirks, wide open for the world to see.

I hope you're happy.  I am.