On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:03:17 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> ____/ Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 28 February 2008 04:21 : \____
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>> ____/ Jerry McBride on Wednesday 27 February 2008 21:17 : \____
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>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>> More Bad News at Tax Time?
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>> | The Internal Revenue Service has proposed new rules that would pull
>>>> | within its orbit any software patent that affects taxes, likely choking
>>>> | innovation.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23335842/
>>>>
>>>> Anti-patent page of MySQL, now part of Sun, goes dark
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>> | Go to the MySQL Web site and try to click on the MySQL anti-software
>>>> | patent page, and you won't find it. It's the other shoe dropping as
>>>> | MySQL today became part of Sun Microsystems, which like the rest of the
>>>> | commercial software and services industry, considers software patents a
>>>> | necessary evil.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> http://scottmace.typepad.com/imanager/2008/02/anti-patent-pag.html
>>>>
>>>> MySQL is likely to go GPLv3 now, according to CNET.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I wonder if we will see a mysql fork someday?
>>
>> Sun will probably try hard to avoid this (by ensuring they don't piss over
>> the many users and clients).
>
> Phipps has replies. Here is my last response to him:
"Phipps is a great big bunch of gyps!"
Let's see who can figure that one out......
(no fair to google! )
--
Moshe Goldfarb
Collector of soaps from around the globe.
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http://linuxidiots.blogspot.com/
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