Making Money From Free Software: Sun Buys MySQL For $1 Billion
Today, Sun Microsystems announced its intention to buy MySQL AB, makers of the open source MySQL relational database system, paying $800m in cash & $200m in share options. This is a huge amount of cash for a product which is primarily given away for free.
Over 100 million copies of MySQL have been downloaded or distributed […]
Guardian Vouchers: Why Not Tie SEO In With Offline Marketing?
I love The Guardian, I really do. They’ve got a great website (which they’re slowly redesigning), their paper looks so much better than just about any of its competitors and, between their Technology & Media sections, they have some of the best coverage of this sector of any of the broadsheets. Which is why I’m […]
The People’s Music Store; A Ray of Light in the Morass of Weird Music News
In the midst of all of this chaotic music news (most of it profoundly annoying), I found a mysterious email in my inbox, inviting me to sign up for the beta release of something called the People’s Music Store. It’s the latest brainchild of the boys from Pitch7, who have some impressive online music creds […]
A Nation Of Criminals: How Burning CDs & DRM Are Changing The Music Business
I’ve always been under the impression that it was legal in the UK to use my iPod, and legal to copy music from CDs I’d purchased onto it. I own roughly 1000 CDs, and have recently gone through the pain of ‘ripping’ all of them to my home computer in an effort to reduce the […]
The Magic Penny Of Giving Content Away
This weekend it occurred to me that I hadn’t written a blog post for quite some time so I thought that it was time to do something about that. With the papers full of the news that Bebo had been named as the ‘best social network’ I decided to write a response, explaining why I […]
So Long Netscape, Thanks For All The Fish
Fifteen years ago Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, working at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), developed the first popular web browser “Mosaic“. The funding for this work came from the “High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991“, an act created by one Senator Al Gore. President George Bush Snr. predicted that the […]
NY Times Op-Ed Artwork
As seen on NotCot and referencing the New York Times best of Op-Ed 07, here are some of my highlights - I’ll add that they’re not highlights because of content or context (well, the first one is) but more for artistic value!
By Paula Scher:
By Stephen Doyle:
By Christian Northeast:
