this one scares me quite alot, seeing as most of today's blogs/pages/websites do run on mysql. and i somehow doubt, that oracle will continue with mysql... i see long nights ahead of all of us...

come over to austria we dont got that problem so far...

a lot actually... for one you dont get arrested for your opinion on things...

South Korea was a democracy... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea are you sure youre not talking bout north korea? weird weird...

especially if you would be german, eh;)

if id do that with my job, id have to pay alot of money... either that guy just had enough money, or privacy and companies secrets dont mean a thing in the us.

how could... erm, would... someone not read an email from his isp?

what do we europeans have to do to get a taste of that nice services?

I think your case is a special, but ive had other situations as a coder... its not so much for the things provided, but after all, coding, or brain work is not like switching something on or off, there are day to day differences in how your mind and brain works... alot of companies and customers tend to think that coding is like clicking the start button in windows, which one might also do, when having two double whiskeys behind him... i think we as a society need to learn alot till such things are outgrowing...