Jacob Kaplan-Moss
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Monty says: Oops, we did it again (MySQL 5.1 released as GA with crashing bugs)
This is just nuts: something stamped final should not be this full of fail. Monty's got a great roundup of what went wrong, and as you might expect it's the classic case of letting suits and marketing schedules run software release. I thought Open Source was supposed to put the power back in the hands of the technocrats…
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The power of “no”
Last week, I wrote on Twitter that “closed-source software gets worse with each release (Microsoft, Adobe, …). Open-source software gets better (OOo, Ubuntu, …).” Here’s where I try to expand on that quip.