F. Polverino, here.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
MySQL: A Business Parable
- Open Source, the IP always owned
- LAMP web stack, MySQL a de-facto standard (FB, Google, Twitter, Yahoo)
- dual licensing (consulting and support, T-shirts sale: uninteresting to VC)
- VC, looking for an "exit"
- VC, looking for an "exit"
- Sun and then Oracle acquisitions
- Oracle "not a charity"
From the Open Forum Europe 2012 Conference, here.
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Summary of DMA Review consultation, here. Submissions, here.
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Euractiv, here. While some influential US/EU academics want us to largely forget the DMA and go back to a revised 102 😔.
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TechPolicyPress, here. Good job, but I wouldn't call it controversy TBH.
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Donotpassgo.ca, here.
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R. Podszun, F. Scott Morton, here. I agree that more should be done in trying to make102 somewhat functional, but we aren't done with ...
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Pressemeldung, hier .
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LeParisien, ici.
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Article 19, here (honoured that I could contribute to this).