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I have no idea what his point is, but from a software business perspective, the difference between BSD-style and GPL-style is simple: GPL-style licenses make it harder for competing companies to use your code. GPL is therefore an easier sell inside of a company, because it gives the software owner special rights over the code.
I love the tree builder. How does it decide there is enough space to expand to two (or more) columns and conversely when to collapse columns?
Social Networking will be the target of hackers in 2010
I'll give you an example, I needed to buy some wine as a gift. So I tweeted out to Gary Vaynerchuk what to buy. He tweeted back with a few suggestions. And I got into my car and drove down to Wine Library and bought one of his suggestions.
From my understanding of it that is how dropbox operates. Updating after every file save by hooking into the file system somehow.
Size does affect performance because of the cache.

If the forks are inline, and the cache works in blocks, then you are wasting cache space for code that never runs.

But considering it's intel I'm sure they thought of that.
Maybe it is for you, but I have a cohesive group of friends who use twitter. For me twitter is a way to keep in touch with them. Twitter gives you complete control on who you follow, if you choose poorly and end up with a low signal stream you have only yourself (or perhaps your selection in friends) to blame.
Yeah I haven't convinced myself either, just trying to work through the idea in my head :)

There are a lot of problems with definitions and such. What's an Indie movie? Is it different than the usual YouTube amateur dreck? Who is really the customer, the watchers or the producers? How does reputation, goal-seeking, and game mechanics fit into the usage model? Why would I come back to the site? What kinds of real-world strategies are going to get you around (and make you attractive as a pickup for) big-time distributors? What are the distributors afraid of? What can't they master? Lots of loose ends.

I love movies, and I'd love to see some good Indies, but the signal-to-noise ratio would have to be abnormally high for me to be a regular participant. Videos, shorts, and movies are a much different art form than, say, music or blogging.

It's a neat overall idea. Like everything else, though, the devil is in the details.
I think they moved HQ to Italy. Would they still have to report to the IRS?
True. The option to turn it off would be very nice, if not essential for a lot of people. But I am just pointing out the fact that I have missed opportunities because of messaging systems on other sites. I would have responded almost immediately had the same message came to me in the form of email. Its the result of me forgetting to check 20 different messaging systems I have on various forums/communities - there are just so many to check, and I can't check them all each day and thus some get ignored. I guess to each there own, but on another note maybe someone wants to solve this "checking in on message systems of online communities" problem. Could be the disqus.com of messaging systems.
I don't understand the ferocity of your opinion about the AGPL. Its objectives are reasonable: "don't use my software as part of a closed-source commercial web app".

Virtually every piece of commercial closed-source software is distributed under terms that are strictly more restrictive than the AGPL, and the AGPL's objectives are --- unlike those of commercial vendors --- benevolent.

Finally, licenses aren't in competition. They're just tools. You use the one that supports your objectives.
Sounds like a solutions searching for a problem. Let's wait for the US to decide to build q new reactor first.

You would also probably require experience writing real-time, fail-safe systems (like vxWorks) and a very high government security clearance.
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Really? Java (which is most of the value of Sun) and MySQL are the only Sun products in mainstream use. Solaris is in the same state as HPUX was 10 years ago, VirtualBox and Sun's Xen Product don't have significant market share. Why would Oracle want to sell MySQL back?
My primary email address and several secondary addresses are public in easy to find spots on the web, including my HN profile. All these addresses use gmail and I am not having a problem with spam.
He owns the brand, and controls the direction of the product bearing that brand.
I don't understand what's do difficult to understand about Twitter. It's a communication tool. It's valuable if/when there are useful things being communicated with it.

To say that Twitter is a "land of marketers and bloggers and personalities pushing their own stuff" is like saying that telephones are only useful for telemarketers.

To say that Twitter is too noisy is like saying that there's nothing good on TV. If you don't like what's on _your_ TV you're free to put on whatever you like.
So, what's the story about?
Why content sites are getting ripped off
It's too complicated for real people

Wow, entering text into a big fat field and pressing Enter is too complicated for end users?

I think your threshold is much too low.
In contrast, as a company looking to use and contribute to open-source software, BSD licensed code is an easier sell because you aren't locked to purchasing a commercial non-OSS license from the copyright holders (see: Oracle/Sun/Monty regarding MySQL).
It's pretty common for runtime libraries to optimize low-level routines like memcpy, math, etc. with multiple different paths chosen on the basis of CPU capability bits. It's not the whole code that's twice the size; it's small functions which are implemented 2 or 3 or 5 times depending on what features are available.
I'm firmly disagree with Monty's duplicity, but I'll try to shed some light on it.

The "big deal" is that only two things provide a revenue stream around MySQL sufficient to support the heavy R&D costs associated with building a database product:

- The name ("MySQL")

- The copyright.

If you own the name, you can sell branded binaries and services. If you own the copyright, you can sell non-GPL licenses to commercial interests. Without these, creating a viable revenue stream is incredibly difficult.

I think this ties into this discussion, as well: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1028638 -- I Love the GPL (Except When it Applies to Me)
"I am not that clear why Apache 2 and BSD styles licensed projects just couldn't be Apache 2."

$ wc -w isc apache
192 isc
1395 apache
I honestly wish someone would reply and refute my argument above, it's so depressing to think about the consequences...
Have you actually looked at the details of the AMD errata? I scanned through quite a few, and none of them looked at all relevant to whether a compiler should enable certain SIMD extensions. Also, for the bugs that do need workarounds, the fix is typically in the BIOS or kernel, not the compiler.

Regardless of whatever bugs may or may not exist in AMD's chips, it is anti-competitive for Intel's compiler to refuse to enable SSEx extensions on AMD processors that claim compatibility, when the user has requested SSEx instructions to be used, unless Intel has specific knowledge that AMD has never produced a sufficiently bug-free implementation of SSEx.
How does this compare with git stash?
I'm not sure how I understand how a commercial license is "strictly more restrictive" than the AGPL, which requires that you also release your code under the AGPL. Whether or not it's "strictly more restrictive" rather depends on whether you want to also release all the source to your own code as well.

I also don't understand how the AGPL's objectives are "benevolent" when the primary purpose of those objectives as applied by commercial interests is to ensure a revenue stream via commercial license.

You yourself said: "GPL-style licenses make it harder for competing companies to use your code. GPL is therefore an easier sell inside of a company."

How is that benevolent? (charitable, intending or showing kindness).
Using it! Love it so far, for the few minutes I've used. Perhaps this will replace my need for tadalist which I resort to every now and then when I have too much on my plate.

Would help to see numerical numbered list. I get a good kick personally knowing I have x things to get through.
As lame as the tone of this comment is, he's probably right that one should have a little intro about the product on blog posts like this. At the top and bottom probably, a small screen shot and a blurb/link would probably drive some sales and be informative for new readers.
Yes, the BSD license sure is better for software users. You can lift a BSD package wholesale into a new white-label product, and you don't even have to tell the author! That sure is convenient.

You use the BSD license when you don't care about the commercial value of your code. But, for the most part, I think using the BSD license means you're not going to care about the commercial value of your code, because if it's valuable, people will freeload.

In my industry, the GPL has done a servicable job protecting some key software projects (Snort, Nessus, Wireshark). The counterexamples (notably Metasploit) are utterly dependent on the continued effort of the original authors --- Metasploit goes stale faster than almost any other security tool.
currently: http://totalfinder.binaryage.com

more info on blog
> Some kinds of pedantry may be useful (probably not ever really 'essential' to be pedantic about that word), but linguistic prescriptivism is just tedious. The whole activity depends on a fundamental misunderstanding of language. The schoolmarmish desire to wag your finger at the way someone else speaks or writes is almost never successful and generally just a symptom cranky nostalgia and a false sense of superiority.

The word I usually think of to characterize this is "pretentious".
To clarify, your @reply won't necessarily appear in everyone's feed. It will only appear if:

1) They are the user you are sending the @reply to, OR
2) They follow you AND the person you send the @reply to.

So for example, if I follow @balsamiq and @fogbugz and @balsamiq sends an @reply to @fogbugz, that message will appear in my feed. But if @balsamiq sends an @reply to a user I do not follow, I will not see it in my feed.
Sorry, did I fall into a time warp to 1990?
I'm not sure where you got the 25% number, but thorium deposits exist all over the world. In the US, the carolinas are an available source. It's about as common as lead, so i'm not really sure we're predicting any shortages anywhere yet.
Yes, the BSD license sure is better for software users.

It's also better for software contributors who want to leverage the code in their own products, and use the resulting revenue to contribute back their changes (but not their entire product).

But, for the most part, I think using the BSD license means you're not going to care about the commercial value of your code, because if it's valuable, people will freeload.

Some people will free-load. Many won't. Look at the Apache project, where a vast majority of development is funded by corporations using the software in their closed source products while contributing improvements back to the original product.

In my industry, the GPL has done a servicable job protecting some key software projects (Snort, Nessus, Wireshark).

How do you define "protecting", and what evidence would you use to demonstrate that protection? What would you say those projects were protected from?
""Watch, too, for Amazon, to develop an application platform.""

What is AWS? AWS provides high level infrastructure like very robust message queues and file volumes that are automatically replicated. Add elastic load balancing, easy to manage EC2s, etc. and you really have much higher level components than just leasing servers.

Will Amazon try to compete with Google Apps? I don't think so.
"some were paying for non-gpl'd versions of the code to integrate/resell in their products"

If that's what they need, perhaps to migrate their products to a BSD-licensed RDBMS like PostgreSQL. Or to a public-domain one like SQLite. Or a fully proprietary one. It's their software and, since, they have already licensed it as proprietary, their users were already robbed the freedoms GPL'ed MySQL would provide.

As it is now, those companies have licenses for specific versions. If they didn't get permanent unrevokable licenses and were happy with the cheaper ones they got, well... Phineas Barnum would be happy to use them as examples.

"whether this is fair is up for debate"

If handing over copyright is too expensive, companies are always free not to contribute or not to use Asterisk at all. They will, however, have to compete with other companies who do. Economics will dictate who wins.

"(and is partly why many users hate gpl software, preferring more "open" licenses like bsd/isc)"

The only freedom GPL denies a developer is to close up software that was once free. The only freedom the allegedly "more open" licenses give developers is to deny freedoms to their users. For the users (and software freedom is about them), those licenses give nothing.

But we are drifting from the original topic.

The topic is that MySQL is Oracle-proof and doesn't need saving the same way other GPL'ed products don't need saving. They are either good - and thus worthy of surviving - or bad - and thus will die natural deaths.

Many people have emotional attachment to their software. I must confess I am thinking and rethinking moving from Linux to OpenSolaris for much too long to explain it in strictly rational terms. I will miss it when Linux dies, but, by then, I expect GNU/HURD to run nicely on my 64-core ARM-based netbook. Or, at least, ZFS to be under GPLv3.
Let me define what an indie in my scenario is: any one/group trying to distribute video content he/she/they created without the aide of a third-party distributor, whether it may be a direct-to-dvd company, or Twentieth Century Fox.

Now the main target of this service, at least initially, is to find an audience for and distribute the films that

a) can't find even a direct-to-dvd distributor let alone Fox

b) have found a direct-to-dvd type distributor but have found it unfulfilling/unsuccessful

Like I've said before, I believe the internet will allow films to find audiences they may not have if it only went to DVD or on Netflix, or Blockbuster online. For this reason initially we want to target the low end of content on the quality spectrum, charge them to try to distribute their films using our platform online, and go from there. So their goals may not be to get picked up by a big time distributor. Our goal is to simply let them get some sort of return, or exposure, for their film (or web series).

One of the directors I'm consulting with had found a distributor, but has decided that looking back he would have self-distributed. He still has the internet download rights to his film so he is planning to use the service when it goes live.

If you have any specific concerns, please ask so I can alleviate your concerns, or revise my ideas. I've thought this over a lot and am perfectly comfortable revealing my secrets.
Commercial license: not only do you not have the right to use my software without accepting my terms, but you will pay me, probably per-core. That's strictly worse than AGPL.

You and I may be arguing at cross-purposes. You seem to care a lot about the hardships licenses create for software users. I couldn't care less. I think it's an inherently benevolent thing for a software author to give away her code for free, and if she wants to do that under a strict copyleft... her code, her terms.

The objective of the AGPL is reasonable. "Don't use my code in closed-source applications". As a developer, that term has been annoying on many occasions (shudder readline), but it has never seemed unfair.
Sounds like AMD should just start setting the vendor string to "GenuineIntel", then. (This is something like the "like Mozilla" in every user agent string. If dumb software is going to do dumb tests, and you need to fool the dumb test to get your interoperability.)
In the case of Snort, that would be protection from 5-10 VC-funded commercial companies releasing products that compete with Sourcefire's product, the core of which (in fact, the entire v1.0 of which) is simply Snort. Does that sound fair to you? That someone would collect $5MM to build a 30 person engineering team that gets to start picking off customers in 3 months by repackaging your code? It doesn't sound fair to me at all.
Etsy, RentACoder, Mechanical Turk: there are plenty of opportunities to make up to $5/day online.

Hint: you still make a boat-load more handing out your business card at the pub during happy hour and talking to people.
The only freedom GPL denies a developer is to close up software that was once free.

You can't "close up" software that was free. The software remains free.

The only freedom the allegedly "more open" licenses give developers is to deny freedoms to their users.

It gives developers the freedom to create an aggregate product without also releasing their own code under the GPL, allowing them to pursue a business model that they feel will fund the ongoing R&D necessary to produce that product.

For the users (and software freedom is about them), those licenses give nothing.

If users do not feel that a product does not provide a fair trade, they are under no obligation to purchase or use it, and the original code remains to do with what they will. However, as indicated by vast market success, users do feel that these licenses and the products produced using them do provide something of value.
Ya this might be a nice opt in option. It preserves privacy and keeps people from having to handle yet another messaging system too. My email happens to be a google talk handle. So that occasionally leads to contact.
This could potentially save a lot time for TAs who have to summarize papers for their professors.

It bothers me to no end that research publications are geared more towards gaining reputation (and funding) than sharing information.

Best of luck!
Put your contact info in your profile, check the profiles of people you want to talk to, and get on with your life. =)
I like the idea, but anything like this, at least for me, needs to be syncing to the web and have a web UI too. You don't necessarily need a mobile client, but a mobile optimized website for it is kind of a must have too.

But I agree that there's a need, though it is a crowded market.
Better yet: make it writable.

That way the OS could change it per process/thread/context and the code would be happy.
Err... 'duh' - out of 60 some odd million, there are bound to be some, and of course there are plenty of happy people in the states... My point was that it's much more difficult to be an outcast in Italy.
I don't really understand how that's the case. In 15 years as a professional DBA working with both Oracle and MySQL I have never found myself in the position of thinking, hmm, Oracle or MySQL for this project? It just doesn't really happen (no matter how much Monty would like to believe it does). I recently decided between MySQL and SQLite on a smaller project (SQLite won that one). I can see myself deciding between Oracle and Postgres one day (never happened in practice).
Ask HN: What are the best services to promote young musicians?
My cousin is a young and very talented composer and musician, but his career has been constrained by two factors: first the fact that he is not composing popular music, and the second that he is living in Croatia, which while it has a great history of world-known musicians is really a very difficult place to start from.

I'd like to help him, and I know there are Web services that are used to promote up and coming composers and musicians. Unfortunately I am not very familiar eith them, and I thought what the better place u ask about it than Hacker News.

So, I would be very grateful if someone could recommend an online service (or services) he could use to get in touch with worldwide -- and especially UK and US -- music industries. Thanks!
Others are doing it.. http://www.salesforce.com/platform/ - I suppose it's not unreasonable to assume AWS will provide something similar (but slightly better in some way I'm guessing!)
A few semi-random observations:

Japan's fertility rate is in the "lowest of the low", a rate from which no other society has ever recovered. You can plot it out so that it's projected there will be no Japanese left by the end of the next? century, but a gentle "will the last person please turn out the lights" scenario is extremely unlikely in such a rough neighborhood, where so many of the neighbors have serious grudges from 20th century Imperial Japan (at the time of the atomic bombings, the monthly death toll of the conquered people was in the low six figures; they killed 250K Chinese just trying to find one Doolittle crew, etc. etc. etc. etc.).

All that money invested in the Postal Savings System is, as far as I know, gone. As the article noted, it's invested in "safe" government bonds, i.e. the money has been long spent and with the current and rising worthy of a 3rd World country debt to GDP ratio it's vanishingly unlikely it'll ever be repaid. Especially if each succeeding decade continues to be "lost".

However, all that said, the Japanese have a modern history of substantial and successful (at least at some levels) remaking of their society, e.g. Sengoku (civil war) -> Bakufu (military government AKA shogunate) -> Meji Restoration sliding into Imperial Japan -> post-WWII fantastic recovery.

Although perhaps this success is mostly to be judged from the viewpoint of the ruling class, which has been been all too often fantastically inept. Japan hasn't been run for the benefit of the people as far back as I know (e.g. Sengoku), and one might observe that its terminal demographics are a reflection of the people having reached a tipping point (check out some of the comments in the article; I can say that from what I've read descent rice is beyond the budget of many if not most Japanese (they're now into the 2nd generation of thrifty mothers feeding their children bread for breakfast and noodles for lunch)).

Maybe they'll recover. But it won't happen absent something that changes the reward structure so that family creation becomes healthy.
Which means nothing really. If Monty announces that MarisDB is "the real MySQL" everyone who's ever heard of MySQL will go with him. Everyone else probably doesn't even know what database is under their company's data.

All Sun got for their $1Bn was the domain name mysql.com...
Isn't this the textbook reason for using - and contributing to - open-source compilers and libraries?
"everyone has friends, most all of them have girlfriends, social lives, and hobbies and activities outside of computers."

That sounds like every single geek I personally know here in the US.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1026128
Exposure to more people increases the chances of someone interested seeing it. So unless your movie is a sex tape, I'd say it's desirable to have it seem by as many people as you can, as long as the cost isn't too much to distribute it for free.
I honestly don't know... it's sort of weird, because Italy is a place where people are generally attuned to fashion and looks and 'superficial' things. Maybe it's different for men and women here (indeed, I'm sure it is), and my observations mostly regard my male friends and are fairly subjective anyway. Still, though, people really seem to behave like vicious animals in the US at that age, and I think it's something people ought to be ashamed of.
Thanks!

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Without these, creating a viable revenue stream is incredibly difficult.

Yes, and Monty knew that when he chose to structure MySQL the product that way. Everything is proceeding exactly as he foresaw and intended.