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Businessmen’s guide to open-source licenses

Is it OK to take program code under a given license, add our own functionality, and then… (1) sell/license it as a product? (2) provide it as software-as-a-service?

How to get screwed on the Internet

A few weeks ago I had a chat about the state of Internet security with a friend who runs a hosting company, and he told me that the majority of the websites they host are cracked. This is because people just install just a forum/blog/gallery/etc software, but most have no idea that such installations have to be constantly “security patched”. Then, sooner or later someone finds an exploitable bug in that particular engine, and then their website is used to send spam, facilitate phishing attacks, host viruses, or worse.

My first github project

I finally put my “kkrc” script and the accompanying .rc files (.vimrc, .screenrc, .zshrc) on github, under the BSD license. Check it out at kkrc.git! Feel free to fork it if you don’t like my defaults, and update the .rc files with your ones.

Open source key-value databases

A hétvégén belemélyedtem kicsit a kulcs-érték adatbázisok megkutatásába, illetve a map/reduce (mint funkcionális programozási teória, és napjainkban már gyakorlat) mikéntjébe. Megnéztem egy marék nyílt forráskódú adatbázist, idemásolom a jegyzeteimet, egyrészt, hogy nekem meglegyen, másrészt hátha segítség lesz egyszer valakinek. Dőlt betűvel azok a dolgok, ami miatt (számomra, és egyenlőre) kiesett az adott termék:
Scalaris: Google: 194.000. [...]

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