Surely there must be a better way to get your point across. Well, I assume this is an insult because you don't appear to be too hippie-ish. But if you really are the expert in open-source business that you claim to be, you probably can do better than to describe part of the MySQL community as an open-source hippie commune that displays hippie-esque tendencies, unless they self-identify as that. Although that will be a fair description once we start holding the user conferences at Burning Man and Country Fair.
I haven't linked the blog in question because I don't want to promote it.
Monday, April 27, 2009
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thats his schtick. used to be really funny at uncov. lately its just been bitter and mean. you can tell he's not really trying anymore just wants to keep collecting the register's check.
ReplyDeleteYou are thinking of Ted.
ReplyDeleteHmm... MySQL Conference at Burning Man... Sounds like a facinating idea, even if only for a Developer conference. I would wager that data connectivity at Burning Man is at least on a par, if not easily surpassing, data connectivity at most MySQL's past developer conferences!
ReplyDeleteNow that MySQL is "all grown up", perhaps suggest it for a Drizzle conference.
Although to be true to the name, perhaps Drizzle Conference at the Reading Festival would be more closely matched considering the weather.
%^)
The thing that bothers me about all this is that MySQL is always used as an example of a company that was wildly successful at monetizing an open source product.
ReplyDeleteThat's not true. They monetized a product that also happened to distribute the source. For years the tactic has been to distribute the source, see who hacks on it, and hire them. It worked well. There is no open development community. There are numerous bug reports and development discussions that are internal and private to Sun. This isn't open at all.
By the way part of that monetization was to tack the word enterprise on to mysql and hide gpl releases on a website you have to pay money to access. It's so sad the way the word enterprise scares people into thinking they have to pay money. It's a brilliant sham.
We considered having a Drizzle meeting at Burning Man last year, since most of us was there, but we found better things to do with our time :)
ReplyDelete-Brian