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July 24th, 2006
I found an example today of why the ambiguity of the term "Open Source" can be dangerous.
Some folks have written a web management interface for MySQL (similar to PhpMyAdmin) and announced it on Digg.com
The article headline read "MySQL Quick Admin Becomes Open-Source Freeware" which is rather unfortunate as no-one had any idea what they could do with the code.
Even worse they didn’t state on their website (or apparently in the code itself) how the code was licenced so it was all a bit of a mess
Although their intentions were good they got a rough ride on Digg.com in part for some UI design and functionality reasons, but also because their message about their intent for the code wasn’t clear.