Q&A: MySQL’s CEO Marten Mickos on philosopher Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand’ concept, the GPLv3, deciding when to develop in-house or tap the open source community, and why open source is not forgiving. Read the full interview. Columnists’ corner: Now more than ever, open source is winding its way into the storage realm. The path won’t be easy but the payoff is juicy, no question about that. “The desire for cost savings is driving the industry toward a new set of technologies and standards that are considerably more open,” explains Neil McAllister in Sowing the seeds of open source storage. “Once they’re in place, developers can begin to build on their foundation, stacking blocks higher and higher up the software stack until they’ve reached the level of the proprietary vendors today.” The news beat: Tibco says it will open source and upgrade its AJAX toolkit, General Interface, with a beta release today. Acer becomes the latest hardware maker to enter talks with Sony about faulty laptop battery recalls. And Nokia licenses nearly 700 location-based patents from Trimble. Screencasts: Jack Ozzie and J.J. Allaire join Jon Udell to discuss Windows Live Writer and how its plug-in architecture is being tapped for microformats and Live Clipboard. In Udell’s words: Live Writer itself may or may not appeal to you as a blog authoring tool, but if you’re curious about how Ray Ozzie’s wiring the web strategy will play out, you’ll want to see and think about the end-to-end linkup between Live Writer and Eventful that’s shown here. Technology Industry