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Jonathan Schwartz continues in his blog about the benefits of free softwares. He aptly puts – “Free software has no pirates”. Schwartz asks companies to consider the pirates simply as users who cannot afford your software.

Sun Microsystems has made a bid to tap into the burgeoning market for providing services to web 2.0 companies like Facebook by buying MySQL, a provider of enterprise software,’ reports Times Online.
Sun will pay $1 billion for MySQL.
What is MySQL?
MySQL is a multithreaded, multi-user SQL database management system (DBMS) which has, according to MySQL AB, [...]