SunMink

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☞ Open Source and Freedom

• Introducing Amazon RDS - The Amazon Relational Database Service
  That's MySQL in the cloud as a web service. This is exactly the sort of thing that creates demand for service at the point of deployment and drives the open source ecosystem. I hope those declaring the future of MySQL gloomy are paying close attention here; it seems that open source makes this sort of thing possible and it's hard to see who could stop it.
  (tags: MySQL Amazon Cloud FOSS OpenSource Database cloudcomputing)
• Welcome to OpenSolaris.org - XWiki
  OpenSolaris has a new web site, built using XWiki.
  (tags: OpenSolaris OpenSource Unix FOSS)
• Everything you always wanted to know about MySQL but were afraid to ask
  Matthew Aslett makes a bid to become the definitive index of community comment on the MySQL dimension of Oracle's attempt to buy Sun.
  (tags: Sun Oracle MySQL Acquisition FOSS OpenSource Analyst)
• RMS, GPL, The Peculiar Institution of Dual Licensing
  Brian Aker thinks dual licensing (or what Richard Stallman calls "selling exceptions") is bad for open source. I tend to agree with him.
  (tags: FOSS OpenSource Dual-Licensing MySQL GPL business)

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