Archive for July, 2008
Caligari TrueSpace 7.6 is Free
That says it all – Caligari TrueSpace 7.6 – the newest release of their 3D modeling and rendering tools was released for free. Get Caligari TrueSpace for free.
TrueSpace is a Windows only 3D modeling and rendering package that’s been available for over 20 years. Recently, the company was acquired by Microsoft for their Live Earth project. This runs parallel to Google’s acquisition of of SketchUp! a few years ago. Read the rest of this entry »
Nominative Use is Your Friend
I am glad to see that there are better and better articles appearing on wikipedia – especially this description of nominative use – the defense against trademark infringement. This is extremely relevant in a world where companies trademark their product names then tell the world you can’t use that name in statements of compatibility. If there’s simply no other way to express compatibility then according to nominative use, you can use it in very specific way. Read the rest of this entry »
Web Axis Powers vs Javascript
Yet another slam against Javascript – this time in Dan Morrill’s blog vs Javascript 2. Dan names AIR, Silverlight, and JavaFX as successors to Javascript because of his prediction that the browser based application of today is destined to be replaced by open standards apps of some other kind. Read the rest of this entry »
MySQL Community Server Love Died in November 2007
A new reason has come up to be swearing at MySQL rather than swearing by MySQL.
The MySQL Performance Blog reports that MySQL Community Edition has not been upgraded since November 2007, whereas it previously received twice-a-year updates. This product is the free and open source version of MySQL (The M in LAMP) that was MySQL’s source of success.
What is bothersome is that the MySQL Community Server page lists version 6.0, however if you follow that link, you are directed back to the 5.0.x version and also directed to their per server/per year license, which has an enticing per server/per year license starting at $595 but quickly stepping up to $4999 per year.
I’ve had a few folks point out to me that this is a better price than Valentina, until they figure out that Valentina initial pricing is for two years of updates, not one, bringing the price down to about the same or below MySQL pricing. That is intentional.
