Percona Live Amsterdam is in 3 weeks, and on the evening of the second day of the conference (Tuesday October 4th 2016), there is the traditional Community Dinner.
As last year, Booking.com is hosting the event and as last year, canal boats will bring attendees from the conference venue to Booking.com headquarters.
This event involves some planning: Percona needs to arrange for canal boats and
A few events, but mostly circling around London:
I’m happy to speak at Percona Live Europe Amsterdam 2016 again this year (just look at the awesome schedule). On my agenda:
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It was suggested by Monty that the posts I've made about MariaDB
are for publicity. This simply isn't true. I would have much
preferred a different outcome in my interactions with MariaDB. I
figured that they would end up giving me a hard time, and I'd be
stubborn and we'd both hate each other for as long as I could
keep from leaving. A quick separation actually seems much better
in such context. Regardless, I would have preferred to speak
amicably to the MariaDB Corporation about switching the license
back, or at least moving to the new license at the time of the
notification of the community, ie, changing the license so that
bug fixes for 1.3.4 were not mingled with new 2.0 features.
It could have been easily possible to have a 1.3.5 release that
fixes the major bugs in 1.3 and then release a new set of
features as 2.0. This would have been at least reasonable, but by …
OPEN SOURCE IS ABOUT BEING OPEN NOT JUST ABOUT SOURCE CODE.
MariaDB makes changes to the storage engine API without even
consulting the mailing list. In fact, some MariaDB replication
features don't work with TokuDB because a new storage engine API
call is required, and this call requires functionality that might
not exist in all engines, that is, the engine must be able to
convert a transaction id into a THD object. No API is provided by
the SE to make this translation. MariaDB must communicate changes
to the storage API to the public so that the public can ensure
that tools made to work with MariaDB continue to work with
MariaDB. It doesn't matter that TokuDB is made by a competitor.
In a foreign language article, Kaj recently said MariaDB is more
open than Oracle because it includes many storage engines. This
is a crappy argument. MariaDB is trying to say they are better
than Oracle because they profit more from including code they
didn't …
In this post, We’re going share the details about Operation and Administration part of the MaxScale. To view Installation and Configuration of MaxScale checkout our previous blog.
Before going through this week’s topic, I would highlight some recent change at MaxScale has went through.
From Version 2.0, MaxScale license changed from GPLv2 to MariaDB BSL.
MariaDB BSL enforces usage limitation for free use, require licensing for the unlimited access.
" Usage Limitation: Usage of the software is free when your application uses …[Read more]
It was suggested by Monty that the posts I've made about MariaDB are for publicity. This simply isn't true. I would have much preferred a different outcome in my interactions with MariaDB. I figured that they would end up giving me a hard time, and I'd be stubborn and we'd both hate each other for as long as I could keep from leaving. A quick separation actually seems much better in such context. Regardless, I would have preferred to speak amicably to the MariaDB Corporation about switching the license back, or at least moving to the new license at the time of the notification of the community, ie as the LAST checkin in the 2.0 branch. I would suggest they re-release 2.0 as GPL and move 2.1 to the BSL to allow the market to decide if they want to move to 2.1, or even take up 2.0, if they aren't guaranteed important (especially security!) fixes in the older …
[Read more]Open Source is a whole-of-process approach to development that can produce high-quality products better tailored to users’ real world needs. A key reason for this is the early feedback cycle built into that complete process.
Simply publishing something under an Open Source license (while not applying Open Source development processes) does not yield the same quality and other benefits. So, not all Open Source is the same.
Publishing source of a product “later” (for instance when the monetary benefit has diminished for the company) is meaningless. In this scenario, there is no “Open Source benefit” to users whatsoever, it’s simply a proprietary product. There is no opportunity for the client to make custom modifications or improvements, or ask a third party to work on such matters – neither is there any third party opportunity to verify and validate either code …
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I have been fired for speaking out about the GPL and MariaDB
actions that have caused great harm to our ecosystem.
It has been pointed out that I have a non-compete agreement. None
of my tools compete with MariaDB and I have no non-public
knowledge of MariaDB technology. GPLScale remains free software
under the GNU GPL license and it is my right to fork a github
repo. I am not paid to work on GPLScale and I don't intend to get
paid to maintain it by anyone. All my projects are labors of
love.
Who wants to hire me? I'm dedicated, honest, open, and I have
integrity. I'm willing to risk everything for what I believe
in.
Email me at:
greenlion at gmail dot com
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I have been a proponent of GPL for a long time, and I don't need
publicity.
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I have been fired for speaking out about the GPL and MariaDB
actions that have caused great harm to our ecosystem.
It has been pointed out that I have a non-compete agreement. None
of my tools compete with MariaDB and I have no non-public
knowledge of MariaDB technology. GPLScale remains free software
under the GNU GPL license and it is my right to fork a github
repo. I am not paid to work on GPLScale and I don't intend to get
paid to maintain it by anyone. All my projects are labors of
love.
Who wants to hire me? I'm dedicated, honest, open, and I have
integrity. I'm willing to risk everything for what I believe
in.
Email me at:
greenlion at gmail dot com
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I have been a proponent of GPL for a long time, and I don't need
publicity.
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