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Aug
09
2012
Linus on Instantiation and Armadaification
Posted by C.J. Collier on Thu 09 Aug 2012 18:46 UTC
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I feel a sense of pride when I think that I was involved in the development and maintenance of what was probably the first piece of software accepted into Debian which then had and still has direct up-stream support from Microsoft. The world is a better place for having Microsoft in it. The first operating system I ever ran on an 08086-based CPU was MS-DOS 2.x. I remember how thrilled I was when we got to see how my friend’s 80286 system ran BBS software that would cause a modem to dial a local system and display the application as if it were running on a local machine. Totally sweet.

When we were living at 6162 NE Middle in the nine-eight 292, we got an 80386 which ran Doom. Yeah, the original one, not the fancy new one with the double barrel shotgun, but it would probably run that one, too. It was also …

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Oct
26
2009
Harish Pillay and Brian Aker debate with Richard Stallman (Part 2)
Posted by Colin Charles on Mon 26 Oct 2009 02:41 UTC
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The attendees were not satisfied with the first answer RMS gave to Brian, that Harish Pillay (Chief Technical Architect, Red Hat Singapore), chose to ask RMS what more he had to say, with regards to the letter he’d written. He answered quite candidly in this video, which Brian chimed in for as well.



The back channel for all this was Twitter… Don’t hesitate to follow @harishpillay, @brianaker, @piawaugh or even @webmink …

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Oct
25
2009
Brian Aker debates with Richard Stallman
Posted by Colin Charles on Sun 25 Oct 2009 08:41 UTC
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At foss.my 2009, Brian Aker asked Richard Stallman at his keynote, about the Oracle/Sun acquisition (with a focus on MySQL), with regards to the parallel licensing approach used by MySQL. Brian was referring to:

As only the original rights holder can sell commercial licenses, no new forked version of the code will have the ability to practice the parallel licensing approach, and will not easily generate the resources to support continued development of the MySQL platform.

from Richard’s Letter to the EC opposing Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL. Listen to the discussion between Brian and Richard.



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Jan
24
2006
RMS on MySQL's Connector licenses
Posted by C.J. Collier on Tue 24 Jan 2006 22:13 UTC
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I sent mail to RMS the other day asking what he thought of MySQL's licensing scheme:


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