In an age when paper qualifications and certificates of one description or another are touted as evidence of competence, it's refreshing to know that the top MySQL expert in Australia has only been officially certified on a version of the program which came out years ago.
The fact that the General Public Licence, better known as the GPL, is oft misunderstood, even by those who could be expected to know better, came home to me with a vengeance yesterday.
When Con Zymaris started a little company offering free software services 17 years ago — when the concept of open source did not exist — it is unlikely that he thought he would be around in 2008, doing the same business.