There has been much controversy about Copyright and file-sharing on the internet during the last decade. Admittedly, the All Rights Reserved statement is incompatible with the nature of communications in the Digital Age and thus a new more flexible content and media licensing scheme is required. A permission system would be the natural solution to [...]

There has been much controversy lately about Sun‘s acquisition by Oracle and how it will affect the future of the widely used open-source RDBMS, MySQL.