Microsoft's embrace of MySQL could kill it - Microsoft supports MySQL in Azure, similar to Amazon RDS. "After all, the protections that the GNU General Public License (GPL)
and other open-source licenses offer in the traditional software world are essentially meaningless in the networked world, where software is used to create services, but isn't actually distributed." Will we see more use of the Affero GPL?
Can One Bad Apple Ruin it for the Middle Men? - "Is it so difficult to imagine a world in which Apple could officially
enable jailbroken applications with the caveat that support ends the
minute that takes place? It shouldn’t be, but probably is."