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Log: Planet run at Tue Jan 5 19:00:30 CET 2010 File Changes: Directory: /native-lang/www/planet/ =================================== File [changed]: atom.xml Url: http://native-lang.openoffice.org/source/browse/native-lang/www/planet/atom.xml?r1=1.2577&r2=1.2578 Delta lines: +33 -49 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2010-01-05 12:00:51+0000 1.2577 +++ atom.xml 2010-01-05 18:00:36+0000 1.2578 @@ -5,9 +5,36 @@ <link rel="self" href="http://native-lang.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml"/> <link href="http://native-lang.openoffice.org/planet/"/> <id>http://native-lang.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml</id> - <updated>2010-01-05T12:00:49+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-01-05T18:00:34+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> + <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">Monty Widenius wants another billion dollars, should we help him?</title> + <link href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/05/monty-widenius-wants-another-billion-dollars-should-we-help-him/"/> + <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/05/monty-widenius-wants-another-billion-dollars-should-we-help-him/</id> + <updated>2010-01-05T17:37:26+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p>Sometimes inbetween Christmas and New Year&#8217;s Eve, the &#8220;<a href="http://www.helpmysql.org">Help MySQL</a>&#8221; initiative was founded. This initiative, publicly supported by Monty Widenius, the co-founder of MySQL would be interesting if it wasn&#8217;t somehow indecent. Let me explain.</p> +<p>What does &#8220;Help MySQL&#8221; advocate, in a nutshell? It claims that if Oracle were to merge with Sun, MySQL customers would be trapped in a market that would be pretty much controlled and captured by Oracle, both through its existing propietary databases offerings and the acquisition of MySQL. Another issue explained on the web site is that the inherent free and open source nature of MySQL will not be enough to grant effective freedoms to the market since Oracle would be the sole copyright owner of the code and trademarks.</p> +<p>I think I will not be the only one to notice that in a whooping twist of history, Monty Widenius explains us why the business and contribution model to MySQL he crafted himself since the beginning of the database company is terrible for customers. I am always quite skeptical of the &#8220;do as I say not as I do&#8221; lines of thinking, but so be it, let&#8217;s carry along. For months now, Monty and his interesting (and interested) acolyte, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_M%C3%BCller">Florian Mueller</a>, have been lobbying everything that seems to be possibly lobbied, from the press to the European Commission where they seemed to have been giving a hard time to Oracle, confused the European anti-trust with byzantine arguments leading to have MySQL relicensed under the BSD <a href="http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20091021164738392">while portraying Microsoft as &#8220;understanding towards the Open Source ecosystem&#8221;</a>.</p> +<p>You might then ask, again, why would Monty want MySQL back, or separated from Oracle? What would Monty Widenius, co-founder of MySQL, and recently an advisor of the Microsoft&#8217;s Codeplex Foundation, counter Sun&#8217;s acquisition by Oracle after having left Sun as fast as he could have? There seems to be many reasons, at least on a personal level. One of them, as <a href="http://jan.wildeboer.net/2010/01/why-i-will-not-sign-the-mysql-petition/">Jan Wildeboer outlined today</a>, might be that Monty just does not want to leave the command of MySQL. The problem is that the &#8220;competitive case&#8221; just does not seem to exist here. Not only can anyone fork MySQL (Monty already did it by the way), but the database market is competitive enough to have other credible incumbents fill in the gap, if Oracle were to become.. carnivorous, which remains to be proven. But there are other reasons, some of whose can be foreseen if one thinks about the possible outcomes of Oracle&#8217;s walking away from the merger at the end of the month. Sun Microsystems lost several of its most profitable and large customers with the globlal financial crisis. It is doubtful whether Sun could actually survive in the end. Sun would then be sold by chunks, and I cannot wait to see who would buy MySQL back&#8230; Monty Widenius, a fellow of the Microsoft&#8217;s Codeplex Foundation, and a man who describes the <em>asserted and patented monopoly </em>as being &#8220;benevolent and understanding towards Open Source&#8221;. There you go, I know you must feel reassured that MySQL will end up in good hands if it does fall in Oracle&#8217;s portfolio.</p> +<p>Sun Microsystems being sold in chunks, or being merged with Oracle raises a lot of questions that I &#8216;m not aware Monty Widenius ever addressed in a constructive way: What about Java, OpenOffice.org, and OpenSolaris (other examples might also be found)? I have not heard a word from Monty Widenius. The future of ODF does not seem to be very important, just like, in the same way, his new colleague at the Codeplex Foundation, Miguel de Icaza, seems to think. Perhaps the quest for another billion is too important and therefore Monty just hasn&#8217;t found the time to think and focus about other issues. By helping MySQL, it seems to me you are also helping the personal wealth of a billionaire who calls evil what some might do in the future while forgetting he did the same before.</p> +<p>All things considered, I am not really excited at the prospect of &#8220;saving MySQL&#8221;, and neither should you. For 2010, let&#8217;s rather focus on constructive conversations and projects.</p> +<p>Happy New Year 2010!</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=150&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_150" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></content> + <author> + <name>Charles Schulz</name> + <uri>http://standardsandfreedom.net</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards » OOo Postings</title> + <subtitle type="html">A weblog by Charles-H. Schulz.</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed"/> + <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed</id> + <updated>2010-01-05T18:00:31+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + <entry xml:lang="fr"> <title type="html">Vous cherchez un job ?</title> <link href="http://sophiegautier.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/01/139-vous-cherchez-un-job"/> @@ -84,7 +111,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">A weblog by Charles-H. Schulz.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed"/> <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed</id> - <updated>2010-01-03T18:00:30+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-01-05T18:00:31+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -167,7 +194,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Ichinoseki, Iwate, Japan</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/atom.xml"/> <id>http://openoffice.exblog.jp/atom.xml</id> - <updated>2010-01-05T12:00:49+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-01-05T18:00:34+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -186,7 +213,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Ichinoseki, Iwate, Japan</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://openoffice.exblog.jp/atom.xml"/> <id>http://openoffice.exblog.jp/atom.xml</id> - <updated>2010-01-05T12:00:49+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-01-05T18:00:34+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -231,7 +258,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">A weblog by Charles-H. Schulz.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed"/> <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed</id> - <updated>2010-01-03T18:00:30+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-01-05T18:00:31+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -297,50 +324,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">A weblog by Charles-H. Schulz.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed"/> <id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed</id> - <updated>2010-01-03T18:00:30+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry xml:lang="fr"> - <title type="html">Comment lire QUASTe</title> - <link href="http://sophiegautier.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/05/132-comment-lire-quaste"/> - <id>tag:sophiegautier.com,2009-12-05:/blog/132</id> - <updated>2009-12-05T09:17:21+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p>Chaque semaine actuellement, nous faisons des tests automatiques sur les OOo320mx qui se succèdent. Mais comment lire ces résultats autrement que par leur couleur&nbsp;?</p> <p>Nous ne sommes plus loin de la RC de la future 3.2 et petit à petit, la pression s'installe ;) En fait elle était déjà là avec les échéances de la localisation, mais on en voyait pas vraiment le résultat. Maintenant, c'est le temps des tests en tous genres et notamment ceux du VCLTestools toutes les semaines. Je ne fais pour le moment que ceux de la catégorie 0, même s'il vaudrait mieux commencer à faire ceux des catégories 1 à 3, je n'en ai finalement pas le temps. Ce sera pour la RC pendant les vacances de Noël.<br /> -<br /> -Pour lire le résultat, rendez-vous sur <a href="http://quaste.services.openoffice.org/" hreflang="en">QUASTe</a>. Dans le menu de droite, sélectionnez OOo320 dans la liste déroulante MWS Testresults. Dans la page, sélectionnez m6 (ceux pour la m7 sont en cours) puis cliquez sur French. Là , sélectionnez l'OS en cliquant sur son nom. Par exemple, cliquez sur Linux.<br /> -Une page contenant des onglets représentant les modules et listant tous les tests s'affiche. Si vous cliquez sur l'un des tests, vous avez la comparaison du résultat du test entre toutes les versions OOo320mx testées. D'où l'intérêt de les faire sur toutes les versions pour repérer d'éventuelles régressions. Le résultat s'affiche en vert foncé quand il n'y a aucune erreur. En vert clair s'il y a un error log, en orange s'il y a un warning et en rouge s'il y a un error. <br /> -<br /> -Lorsqu'il y a un warning ou error, le survol de la souris sur le statut du test permet de voir le résultat sur les autres plateformes pour le même test. En cliquant sur le nom du test, on a également un détail du test au survol de la souris sur le warning ou s'il s'agit d'une erreur, le détail est fait dans la page. Il est alors possible de comparer par plateforme et par langue les différences de résultat.</p></content> - <author> - <name>sophi</name> - <uri>http://sophiegautier.com/blog/index.php/</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">Sgauti at OOo</title> - <subtitle type="html">Histoires OpenOfficiennes et autres...</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://sophiegautier.com/blog/atom.php"/> - <id>tag:sophiegautier.com,2010:/blog/index.php/</id> - <updated>2010-01-03T00:00:37+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry xml:lang="fr"> - <title type="html">OOoHG : une nouvelle version avec plus de 1600 cartes !</title> - <link href="http://sophiegautier.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/05/131-ooohg-une-nouvelle-version-avec-plus-de-1600-cartes"/> - <id>tag:sophiegautier.com,2009-12-05:/blog/131</id> - <updated>2009-12-05T08:06:48+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p>Ce beau projet continue tranquillement sa route et fournit une nouvelle version contenant maintenant plus de 1600 cartes. Elles sont regroupées par thèmes et catégories dont vous trouverez le détail sur le <a href="http://ooo.hg.free.fr/" hreflang="fr">site OOoHG</a>. L'installation est automatique sous Windows et se fait par décompression sur Linux et Mac. Sur le site, vous trouverez également tous les conseils pour utiliser au mieux les modules comme Cart'OOo ou Chron'OOo ou comment réaliser des croquis en 10mn ou encore faire des diapos avec des objets en flash animés. Enfin la FAQ est à votre disposition pour toutes les questions que vous pourriez vous poser.</p></content> - <author> - <name>sophi</name> - <uri>http://sophiegautier.com/blog/index.php/</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">Sgauti at OOo</title> - <subtitle type="html">Histoires OpenOfficiennes et autres...</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://sophiegautier.com/blog/atom.php"/> - <id>tag:sophiegautier.com,2010:/blog/index.php/</id> - <updated>2010-01-03T00:00:37+00:00</updated> + <updated>2010-01-05T18:00:31+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://native-lang.openoffice.org/source/browse/native-lang/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.2577&r2=1.2578 Delta lines: +24 -35 --------------------- --- index.html 2010-01-05 12:00:51+0000 1.2577 +++ index.html 2010-01-05 18:00:36+0000 1.2578 @@ -29,8 +29,31 @@ <a href="rss20.xml"><img src="rss2.gif" alt="Link to RSS 2 feed" /></a> </div> -<p><em>Bloggings on native language topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: January 05, 2010 12:00 PM CET</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on native language topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: January 05, 2010 06:00 PM CET</em></p> +<h2>January 05, 2010</h2> +<h3> +<a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net"; title="Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards » OOo Postings"> +Charles Schulz</a> : +<a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/05/monty-widenius-wants-another-billion-dollars-should-we-help-him/";> +Monty Widenius wants another billion dollars, should we help him?</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>Sometimes inbetween Christmas and New Year’s Eve, the “<a href="http://www.helpmysql.org";>Help MySQL</a>” initiative was founded. This initiative, publicly supported by Monty Widenius, the co-founder of MySQL would be interesting if it wasn’t somehow indecent. Let me explain.</p> +<p>What does “Help MySQL” advocate, in a nutshell? It claims that if Oracle were to merge with Sun, MySQL customers would be trapped in a market that would be pretty much controlled and captured by Oracle, both through its existing propietary databases offerings and the acquisition of MySQL. Another issue explained on the web site is that the inherent free and open source nature of MySQL will not be enough to grant effective freedoms to the market since Oracle would be the sole copyright owner of the code and trademarks.</p> +<p>I think I will not be the only one to notice that in a whooping twist of history, Monty Widenius explains us why the business and contribution model to MySQL he crafted himself since the beginning of the database company is terrible for customers. I am always quite skeptical of the “do as I say not as I do” lines of thinking, but so be it, let’s carry along. For months now, Monty and his interesting (and interested) acolyte, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_M%C3%BCller";>Florian Mueller</a>, have been lobbying everything that seems to be possibly lobbied, from the press to the European Commission where they seemed to have been giving a hard time to Oracle, confused the European anti-trust with byzantine arguments leading to have MySQL relicensed under the BSD <a href="http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20091021164738392";>while portraying Microsoft as “understanding towards the Open Source ecosystem”</a>.</p> +<p>You might then ask, again, why would Monty want MySQL back, or separated from Oracle? What would Monty Widenius, co-founder of MySQL, and recently an advisor of the Microsoft’s Codeplex Foundation, counter Sun’s acquisition by Oracle after having left Sun as fast as he could have? There seems to be many reasons, at least on a personal level. One of them, as <a href="http://jan.wildeboer.net/2010/01/why-i-will-not-sign-the-mysql-petition/";>Jan Wildeboer outlined today</a>, might be that Monty just does not want to leave the command of MySQL. The problem is that the “competitive case” just does not seem to exist here. Not only can anyone fork MySQL (Monty already did it by the way), but the database market is competitive enough to have other credible incumbents fill in the gap, if Oracle were to become.. carnivorous, which remains to be proven. But there are other reasons, some of whose can be foreseen if one thinks about the possible outcomes of Oracle’s walking away from the merger at the end of the month. Sun Microsystems lost several of its most profitable and large customers with the globlal financial crisis. It is doubtful whether Sun could actually survive in the end. Sun would then be sold by chunks, and I cannot wait to see who would buy MySQL back… Monty Widenius, a fellow of the Microsoft’s Codeplex Foundation, and a man who describes the <em>asserted and patented monopoly </em>as being “benevolent and understanding towards Open Source”. There you go, I know you must feel reassured that MySQL will end up in good hands if it does fall in Oracle’s portfolio.</p> +<p>Sun Microsystems being sold in chunks, or being merged with Oracle raises a lot of questions that I ‘m not aware Monty Widenius ever addressed in a constructive way: What about Java, OpenOffice.org, and OpenSolaris (other examples might also be found)? I have not heard a word from Monty Widenius. The future of ODF does not seem to be very important, just like, in the same way, his new colleague at the Codeplex Foundation, Miguel de Icaza, seems to think. Perhaps the quest for another billion is too important and therefore Monty just hasn’t found the time to think and focus about other issues. By helping MySQL, it seems to me you are also helping the personal wealth of a billionaire who calls evil what some might do in the future while forgetting he did the same before.</p> +<p>All things considered, I am not really excited at the prospect of “saving MySQL”, and neither should you. For 2010, let’s rather focus on constructive conversations and projects.</p> +<p>Happy New Year 2010!</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=150&akst_action=share-this"; title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_150" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/05/monty-widenius-wants-another-billion-dollars-should-we-help-him/";>by Charles at January 05, 2010 05:37 PM CET</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>January 01, 2010</h2> <h3> <a href="http://sophiegautier.com/blog/index.php/"; title="Sgauti at OOo"> @@ -273,40 +296,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h2>December 05, 2009</h2> -<h3> -<a href="http://sophiegautier.com/blog/index.php/"; title="Sgauti at OOo"> -Sophie Gautier</a> : -<a href="http://sophiegautier.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/05/132-comment-lire-quaste";> -Comment lire QUASTe</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p>Chaque semaine actuellement, nous faisons des tests automatiques sur les OOo320mx qui se succèdent. Mais comment lire ces résultats autrement que par leur couleur ?</p> <p>Nous ne sommes plus loin de la RC de la future 3.2 et petit à petit, la pression s'installe ;) En fait elle était déjà là avec les échéances de la localisation, mais on en voyait pas vraiment le résultat. Maintenant, c'est le temps des tests en tous genres et notamment ceux du VCLTestools toutes les semaines. Je ne fais pour le moment que ceux de la catégorie 0, même s'il vaudrait mieux commencer à faire ceux des catégories 1 à 3, je n'en ai finalement pas le temps. Ce sera pour la RC pendant les vacances de Noël.<br /> -<br /> -Pour lire le résultat, rendez-vous sur <a href="http://quaste.services.openoffice.org/"; hreflang="en">QUASTe</a>. Dans le menu de droite, sélectionnez OOo320 dans la liste déroulante MWS Testresults. Dans la page, sélectionnez m6 (ceux pour la m7 sont en cours) puis cliquez sur French. Là , sélectionnez l'OS en cliquant sur son nom. Par exemple, cliquez sur Linux.<br /> -Une page contenant des onglets représentant les modules et listant tous les tests s'affiche. Si vous cliquez sur l'un des tests, vous avez la comparaison du résultat du test entre toutes les versions OOo320mx testées. D'où l'intérêt de les faire sur toutes les versions pour repérer d'éventuelles régressions. Le résultat s'affiche en vert foncé quand il n'y a aucune erreur. En vert clair s'il y a un error log, en orange s'il y a un warning et en rouge s'il y a un error. <br /> -<br /> -Lorsqu'il y a un warning ou error, le survol de la souris sur le statut du test permet de voir le résultat sur les autres plateformes pour le même test. En cliquant sur le nom du test, on a également un détail du test au survol de la souris sur le warning ou s'il s'agit d'une erreur, le détail est fait dans la page. Il est alors possible de comparer par plateforme et par langue les différences de résultat.</p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://sophiegautier.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/05/132-comment-lire-quaste";>by sophi at December 05, 2009 09:17 AM CET</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> -<h3> -<a href="http://sophiegautier.com/blog/index.php/"; title="Sgauti at OOo"> -Sophie Gautier</a> : -<a href="http://sophiegautier.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/05/131-ooohg-une-nouvelle-version-avec-plus-de-1600-cartes";> -OOoHG : une nouvelle version avec plus de 1600 cartes !</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p>Ce beau projet continue tranquillement sa route et fournit une nouvelle version contenant maintenant plus de 1600 cartes. Elles sont regroupées par thèmes et catégories dont vous trouverez le détail sur le <a href="http://ooo.hg.free.fr/"; hreflang="fr">site OOoHG</a>. L'installation est automatique sous Windows et se fait par décompression sur Linux et Mac. Sur le site, vous trouverez également tous les conseils pour utiliser au mieux les modules comme Cart'OOo ou Chron'OOo ou comment réaliser des croquis en 10mn ou encore faire des diapos avec des objets en flash animés. Enfin la FAQ est à votre disposition pour toutes les questions que vous pourriez vous poser.</p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://sophiegautier.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/05/131-ooohg-une-nouvelle-version-avec-plus-de-1600-cartes";>by sophi at December 05, 2009 08:06 AM CET</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> <a id="disclaimer" name="disclaimer"></a> <p><em>Disclaimer: all views expressed on this page are those of the individual contributors, and may not reflect the views of the File [changed]: opml.xml Url: http://native-lang.openoffice.org/source/browse/native-lang/www/planet/opml.xml?r1=1.2576&r2=1.2577 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2010-01-05 12:00:51+0000 1.2576 +++ opml.xml 2010-01-05 18:00:36+0000 1.2577 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Native Language Confederation Planet</title> - <dateModified>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:00:49 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:00:34 +0000</dateModified> <ownerName>Native Language Confederation</ownerName> <ownerEmail>[email protected]</ownerEmail> </head> File [changed]: rss10.xml Url: http://native-lang.openoffice.org/source/browse/native-lang/www/planet/rss10.xml?r1=1.394&r2=1.395 Delta lines: +15 -21 --------------------- --- rss10.xml 2010-01-02 00:00:34+0000 1.394 +++ rss10.xml 2010-01-05 18:00:36+0000 1.395 @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/05/monty-widenius-wants-another-billion-dollars-should-we-help-him/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:sophiegautier.com,2010-01-01:/blog/139" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:sophiegautier.com,2010-01-01:/blog/138" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/12/30/some-predictions-for-2010/"; /> @@ -25,12 +26,24 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:sophiegautier.com,2009-12-15:/blog/134" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:sophiegautier.com,2009-12-12:/blog/133" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/12/07/question-of-the-day-whats-the-real-market-share-of-openofficeorg/"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:sophiegautier.com,2009-12-05:/blog/132" /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:sophiegautier.com,2009-12-05:/blog/131" /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/05/monty-widenius-wants-another-billion-dollars-should-we-help-him/";> + <title>Charles Schulz: Monty Widenius wants another billion dollars, should we help him?</title> + <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/05/monty-widenius-wants-another-billion-dollars-should-we-help-him/</link> + <content:encoded><p>Sometimes inbetween Christmas and New Year&#8217;s Eve, the &#8220;<a href="http://www.helpmysql.org">Help MySQL</a>&#8221; initiative was founded. This initiative, publicly supported by Monty Widenius, the co-founder of MySQL would be interesting if it wasn&#8217;t somehow indecent. Let me explain.</p> +<p>What does &#8220;Help MySQL&#8221; advocate, in a nutshell? It claims that if Oracle were to merge with Sun, MySQL customers would be trapped in a market that would be pretty much controlled and captured by Oracle, both through its existing propietary databases offerings and the acquisition of MySQL. Another issue explained on the web site is that the inherent free and open source nature of MySQL will not be enough to grant effective freedoms to the market since Oracle would be the sole copyright owner of the code and trademarks.</p> +<p>I think I will not be the only one to notice that in a whooping twist of history, Monty Widenius explains us why the business and contribution model to MySQL he crafted himself since the beginning of the database company is terrible for customers. I am always quite skeptical of the &#8220;do as I say not as I do&#8221; lines of thinking, but so be it, let&#8217;s carry along. For months now, Monty and his interesting (and interested) acolyte, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_M%C3%BCller">Florian Mueller</a>, have been lobbying everything that seems to be possibly lobbied, from the press to the European Commission where they seemed to have been giving a hard time to Oracle, confused the European anti-trust with byzantine arguments leading to have MySQL relicensed under the BSD <a href="http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20091021164738392">while portraying Microsoft as &#8220;understanding towards the Open Source ecosystem&#8221;</a>.</p> +<p>You might then ask, again, why would Monty want MySQL back, or separated from Oracle? What would Monty Widenius, co-founder of MySQL, and recently an advisor of the Microsoft&#8217;s Codeplex Foundation, counter Sun&#8217;s acquisition by Oracle after having left Sun as fast as he could have? There seems to be many reasons, at least on a personal level. One of them, as <a href="http://jan.wildeboer.net/2010/01/why-i-will-not-sign-the-mysql-petition/">Jan Wildeboer outlined today</a>, might be that Monty just does not want to leave the command of MySQL. The problem is that the &#8220;competitive case&#8221; just does not seem to exist here. Not only can anyone fork MySQL (Monty already did it by the way), but the database market is competitive enough to have other credible incumbents fill in the gap, if Oracle were to become.. carnivorous, which remains to be proven. But there are other reasons, some of whose can be foreseen if one thinks about the possible outcomes of Oracle&#8217;s walking away from the merger at the end of the month. Sun Microsystems lost several of its most profitable and large customers with the globlal financial crisis. It is doubtful whether Sun could actually survive in the end. Sun would then be sold by chunks, and I cannot wait to see who would buy MySQL back&#8230; Monty Widenius, a fellow of the Microsoft&#8217;s Codeplex Foundation, and a man who describes the <em>asserted and patented monopoly </em>as being &#8220;benevolent and understanding towards Open Source&#8221;. There you go, I know you must feel reassured that MySQL will end up in good hands if it does fall in Oracle&#8217;s portfolio.</p> +<p>Sun Microsystems being sold in chunks, or being merged with Oracle raises a lot of questions that I &#8216;m not aware Monty Widenius ever addressed in a constructive way: What about Java, OpenOffice.org, and OpenSolaris (other examples might also be found)? I have not heard a word from Monty Widenius. The future of ODF does not seem to be very important, just like, in the same way, his new colleague at the Codeplex Foundation, Miguel de Icaza, seems to think. Perhaps the quest for another billion is too important and therefore Monty just hasn&#8217;t found the time to think and focus about other issues. By helping MySQL, it seems to me you are also helping the personal wealth of a billionaire who calls evil what some might do in the future while forgetting he did the same before.</p> +<p>All things considered, I am not really excited at the prospect of &#8220;saving MySQL&#8221;, and neither should you. For 2010, let&#8217;s rather focus on constructive conversations and projects.</p> +<p>Happy New Year 2010!</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=150&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_150" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2010-01-05T17:37:26+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="tag:sophiegautier.com,2010-01-01:/blog/139"> <title>Sophie Gautier: Vous cherchez un job ?</title> <link>http://sophiegautier.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/01/139-vous-cherchez-un-job</link> @@ -177,24 +190,5 @@ </p></content:encoded> <dc:date>2009-12-07T18:41:42+00:00</dc:date> </item> -<item rdf:about="tag:sophiegautier.com,2009-12-05:/blog/132"> - <title>Sophie Gautier: Comment lire QUASTe</title> - <link>http://sophiegautier.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/05/132-comment-lire-quaste</link> - <content:encoded><p>Chaque semaine actuellement, nous faisons des tests automatiques sur les OOo320mx qui se succèdent. Mais comment lire ces résultats autrement que par leur couleur&nbsp;?</p> <p>Nous ne sommes plus loin de la RC de la future 3.2 et petit à petit, la pression s'installe ;) En fait elle était déjà là avec les échéances de la localisation, mais on en voyait pas vraiment le résultat. Maintenant, c'est le temps des tests en tous genres et notamment ceux du VCLTestools toutes les semaines. Je ne fais pour le moment que ceux de la catégorie 0, même s'il vaudrait mieux commencer à faire ceux des catégories 1 à 3, je n'en ai finalement pas le temps. Ce sera pour la RC pendant les vacances de Noël.<br /> -<br /> -Pour lire le résultat, rendez-vous sur <a href="http://quaste.services.openoffice.org/" hreflang="en">QUASTe</a>. Dans le menu de droite, sélectionnez OOo320 dans la liste déroulante MWS Testresults. Dans la page, sélectionnez m6 (ceux pour la m7 sont en cours) puis cliquez sur French. Là , sélectionnez l'OS en cliquant sur son nom. Par exemple, cliquez sur Linux.<br /> -Une page contenant des onglets représentant les modules et listant tous les tests s'affiche. Si vous cliquez sur l'un des tests, vous avez la comparaison du résultat du test entre toutes les versions OOo320mx testées. D'où l'intérêt de les faire sur toutes les versions pour repérer d'éventuelles régressions. Le résultat s'affiche en vert foncé quand il n'y a aucune erreur. En vert clair s'il y a un error log, en orange s'il y a un warning et en rouge s'il y a un error. <br /> -<br /> -Lorsqu'il y a un warning ou error, le survol de la souris sur le statut du test permet de voir le résultat sur les autres plateformes pour le même test. En cliquant sur le nom du test, on a également un détail du test au survol de la souris sur le warning ou s'il s'agit d'une erreur, le détail est fait dans la page. Il est alors possible de comparer par plateforme et par langue les différences de résultat.</p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2009-12-05T09:17:21+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>sophi</dc:creator> -</item> -<item rdf:about="tag:sophiegautier.com,2009-12-05:/blog/131"> - <title>Sophie Gautier: OOoHG : une nouvelle version avec plus de 1600 cartes !</title> - <link>http://sophiegautier.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/05/131-ooohg-une-nouvelle-version-avec-plus-de-1600-cartes</link> - <content:encoded><p>Ce beau projet continue tranquillement sa route et fournit une nouvelle version contenant maintenant plus de 1600 cartes. Elles sont regroupées par thèmes et catégories dont vous trouverez le détail sur le <a href="http://ooo.hg.free.fr/" hreflang="fr">site OOoHG</a>. L'installation est automatique sous Windows et se fait par décompression sur Linux et Mac. Sur le site, vous trouverez également tous les conseils pour utiliser au mieux les modules comme Cart'OOo ou Chron'OOo ou comment réaliser des croquis en 10mn ou encore faire des diapos avec des objets en flash animés. Enfin la FAQ est à votre disposition pour toutes les questions que vous pourriez vous poser.</p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2009-12-05T08:06:48+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>sophi</dc:creator> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://native-lang.openoffice.org/source/browse/native-lang/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.395&r2=1.396 Delta lines: +15 -19 --------------------- --- rss20.xml 2010-01-02 00:00:34+0000 1.395 +++ rss20.xml 2010-01-05 18:00:37+0000 1.396 @@ -8,6 +8,21 @@ <description>Native Language Confederation Planet - http://native-lang.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Charles Schulz: Monty Widenius wants another billion dollars, should we help him?</title> + <guid>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/05/monty-widenius-wants-another-billion-dollars-should-we-help-him/</guid> + <link>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2010/01/05/monty-widenius-wants-another-billion-dollars-should-we-help-him/</link> + <description><p>Sometimes inbetween Christmas and New Year&#8217;s Eve, the &#8220;<a href="http://www.helpmysql.org">Help MySQL</a>&#8221; initiative was founded. This initiative, publicly supported by Monty Widenius, the co-founder of MySQL would be interesting if it wasn&#8217;t somehow indecent. Let me explain.</p> +<p>What does &#8220;Help MySQL&#8221; advocate, in a nutshell? It claims that if Oracle were to merge with Sun, MySQL customers would be trapped in a market that would be pretty much controlled and captured by Oracle, both through its existing propietary databases offerings and the acquisition of MySQL. Another issue explained on the web site is that the inherent free and open source nature of MySQL will not be enough to grant effective freedoms to the market since Oracle would be the sole copyright owner of the code and trademarks.</p> +<p>I think I will not be the only one to notice that in a whooping twist of history, Monty Widenius explains us why the business and contribution model to MySQL he crafted himself since the beginning of the database company is terrible for customers. I am always quite skeptical of the &#8220;do as I say not as I do&#8221; lines of thinking, but so be it, let&#8217;s carry along. For months now, Monty and his interesting (and interested) acolyte, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_M%C3%BCller">Florian Mueller</a>, have been lobbying everything that seems to be possibly lobbied, from the press to the European Commission where they seemed to have been giving a hard time to Oracle, confused the European anti-trust with byzantine arguments leading to have MySQL relicensed under the BSD <a href="http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20091021164738392">while portraying Microsoft as &#8220;understanding towards the Open Source ecosystem&#8221;</a>.</p> +<p>You might then ask, again, why would Monty want MySQL back, or separated from Oracle? What would Monty Widenius, co-founder of MySQL, and recently an advisor of the Microsoft&#8217;s Codeplex Foundation, counter Sun&#8217;s acquisition by Oracle after having left Sun as fast as he could have? There seems to be many reasons, at least on a personal level. One of them, as <a href="http://jan.wildeboer.net/2010/01/why-i-will-not-sign-the-mysql-petition/">Jan Wildeboer outlined today</a>, might be that Monty just does not want to leave the command of MySQL. The problem is that the &#8220;competitive case&#8221; just does not seem to exist here. Not only can anyone fork MySQL (Monty already did it by the way), but the database market is competitive enough to have other credible incumbents fill in the gap, if Oracle were to become.. carnivorous, which remains to be proven. But there are other reasons, some of whose can be foreseen if one thinks about the possible outcomes of Oracle&#8217;s walking away from the merger at the end of the month. Sun Microsystems lost several of its most profitable and large customers with the globlal financial crisis. It is doubtful whether Sun could actually survive in the end. Sun would then be sold by chunks, and I cannot wait to see who would buy MySQL back&#8230; Monty Widenius, a fellow of the Microsoft&#8217;s Codeplex Foundation, and a man who describes the <em>asserted and patented monopoly </em>as being &#8220;benevolent and understanding towards Open Source&#8221;. There you go, I know you must feel reassured that MySQL will end up in good hands if it does fall in Oracle&#8217;s portfolio.</p> +<p>Sun Microsystems being sold in chunks, or being merged with Oracle raises a lot of questions that I &#8216;m not aware Monty Widenius ever addressed in a constructive way: What about Java, OpenOffice.org, and OpenSolaris (other examples might also be found)? I have not heard a word from Monty Widenius. The future of ODF does not seem to be very important, just like, in the same way, his new colleague at the Codeplex Foundation, Miguel de Icaza, seems to think. Perhaps the quest for another billion is too important and therefore Monty just hasn&#8217;t found the time to think and focus about other issues. By helping MySQL, it seems to me you are also helping the personal wealth of a billionaire who calls evil what some might do in the future while forgetting he did the same before.</p> +<p>All things considered, I am not really excited at the prospect of &#8220;saving MySQL&#8221;, and neither should you. For 2010, let&#8217;s rather focus on constructive conversations and projects.</p> +<p>Happy New Year 2010!</p> +<p class="akst_link"><a href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/?p=150&akst_action=share-this" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." id="akst_link_150" class="akst_share_link" rel="nofollow">Share This</a> +</p></description> + <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:37:26 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>Sophie Gautier: Vous cherchez un job ?</title> <guid>tag:sophiegautier.com,2010-01-01:/blog/139</guid> <link>http://sophiegautier.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/01/139-vous-cherchez-un-job</link> @@ -156,25 +171,6 @@ </p></description> <pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:41:42 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>Sophie Gautier: Comment lire QUASTe</title> - <guid>tag:sophiegautier.com,2009-12-05:/blog/132</guid> - <link>http://sophiegautier.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/05/132-comment-lire-quaste</link> - <description><p>Chaque semaine actuellement, nous faisons des tests automatiques sur les OOo320mx qui se succèdent. Mais comment lire ces résultats autrement que par leur couleur&nbsp;?</p> <p>Nous ne sommes plus loin de la RC de la future 3.2 et petit à petit, la pression s'installe ;) En fait elle était déjà là avec les échéances de la localisation, mais on en voyait pas vraiment le résultat. Maintenant, c'est le temps des tests en tous genres et notamment ceux du VCLTestools toutes les semaines. Je ne fais pour le moment que ceux de la catégorie 0, même s'il vaudrait mieux commencer à faire ceux des catégories 1 à 3, je n'en ai finalement pas le temps. Ce sera pour la RC pendant les vacances de Noël.<br /> -<br /> -Pour lire le résultat, rendez-vous sur <a href="http://quaste.services.openoffice.org/" hreflang="en">QUASTe</a>. Dans le menu de droite, sélectionnez OOo320 dans la liste déroulante MWS Testresults. Dans la page, sélectionnez m6 (ceux pour la m7 sont en cours) puis cliquez sur French. Là , sélectionnez l'OS en cliquant sur son nom. Par exemple, cliquez sur Linux.<br /> -Une page contenant des onglets représentant les modules et listant tous les tests s'affiche. Si vous cliquez sur l'un des tests, vous avez la comparaison du résultat du test entre toutes les versions OOo320mx testées. D'où l'intérêt de les faire sur toutes les versions pour repérer d'éventuelles régressions. Le résultat s'affiche en vert foncé quand il n'y a aucune erreur. En vert clair s'il y a un error log, en orange s'il y a un warning et en rouge s'il y a un error. <br /> -<br /> -Lorsqu'il y a un warning ou error, le survol de la souris sur le statut du test permet de voir le résultat sur les autres plateformes pour le même test. En cliquant sur le nom du test, on a également un détail du test au survol de la souris sur le warning ou s'il s'agit d'une erreur, le détail est fait dans la page. Il est alors possible de comparer par plateforme et par langue les différences de résultat.</p></description> - <pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:17:21 +0000</pubDate> -</item> -<item> - <title>Sophie Gautier: OOoHG : une nouvelle version avec plus de 1600 cartes !</title> - <guid>tag:sophiegautier.com,2009-12-05:/blog/131</guid> - <link>http://sophiegautier.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/05/131-ooohg-une-nouvelle-version-avec-plus-de-1600-cartes</link> - <description><p>Ce beau projet continue tranquillement sa route et fournit une nouvelle version contenant maintenant plus de 1600 cartes. Elles sont regroupées par thèmes et catégories dont vous trouverez le détail sur le <a href="http://ooo.hg.free.fr/" hreflang="fr">site OOoHG</a>. L'installation est automatique sous Windows et se fait par décompression sur Linux et Mac. Sur le site, vous trouverez également tous les conseils pour utiliser au mieux les modules comme Cart'OOo ou Chron'OOo ou comment réaliser des croquis en 10mn ou encore faire des diapos avec des objets en flash animés. Enfin la FAQ est à votre disposition pour toutes les questions que vous pourriez vous poser.</p></description> - <pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:06:48 +0000</pubDate> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
