Game 15: Astacio++; Soriano--

Astacio is making it look easy with another really good performance.

Soriano, on word that he wasn't in the lineup, threw a tantrum. Something for Buck to keep an eye out. This also won't boost Soriano's trade value.

Somehow, Cordero even with his two blown saves leads the league in saves so far. He still should have eight saves not six. Does this just mean that the Rangers are in more close games than the rest of the league?

Meanwhile, the AL West continues to beat up on each other. The current standings entering 4/20 are:

• Anaheim: 7-7
• Oakland: 7-7
• Seattle: 7-7
• Texas: 7-8

Should be fun to see how this one plays out over the course of the year.

(I was at the Angels/Mariners game today at Angel Stadium. Day games are just so much fun as long as you keep the sunscreen handy!)

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CDDL isn't that wonderful from this side of the fence, either.

Simon Phipps comes to the defense of the CDDL. So does Claire.

It seems that the GPL folks are screaming that CDDL stinks because it allows bundling with non-CDDL licensed works. Yawn. As a BSD-style license advocate, it's not that wonderful either.

My first problem with the CDDL is that it enforces derivative works of a CDDL file to go back to Sun. It's essentially (and mostly functionally equivalent to) the LGPL in that sense. Yet, as we've seen, that only forces developers to implement all sorts of goopy hacks to try to not have their custom changes be encumbered by CDDL.

Furthermore, what exactly is Sun going to do with these changes that third parties make? Why force it back in to the commons? Why do they think those changes are going to be any good?

I'm also willing to bet that Sun themselves won't honor the CDDL on the source either: they will use their position as copyright holder to 'close source' their Solaris modifications. If they need to make any changes to the Solaris tree, which they currently claim will be derived from the OpenSolaris trees (much like Mozilla and Netscape's odd marriage at one point), that the modifications will be kept private and, hence, not under CDDL.

See the CDDL grants an uneven playing field by allowing the copyright holder more rights than rest of the community. At least, the BSD-style license allows everyone on the same playing field by allowing third-parties the same rights as the copyright holder (i.e. to make private modifications and distribute them). This disparity is even more acute with GPL than with CDDL: see MySQL and their licensing nightmare.

The BSD-style licenses are the truest forms of 'open source' - you do what you want, just don't use our service or trade marks. If you want to contribute it back, brilliant. If not, have fun.

At least Sun is making a real effort and can talk intelligently about it. Props for that. But, welcome to joys of open-source licensing: no one is ever happy no matter what you do.

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Game 14: Chan Ho + Ball = Souvenirs & Happy Feelings

Chan Ho just didn't have any command last night. He was walking folks from the beginning and gave up the gopher ball to Chavez.

As Chavez said, "It was just a fastball down the middle, I'm glad I didn't miss it. I've been missing a lot of those."

Nice to know how considerate Chan Ho is of the opposing batters to make them feel better. Nothing like a fastball down the middle to make your day. Grr.

But, this is the Chan Ho we've been expecting, but haven't seen yet.

Haren pitched well for six innings.

I have no idea what the umpire saw on the 'balk' by Riley. I didn't see him move at all. Nuts. The ump probably needs some glasses...

Almanzar got torched in relief. And, that actually played a part because the Rangers scored 3 in the bottom of the ninth off Cruz to force the As to bring in Dotel. Oh well.

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Game 13: Pile on early, but not often.

6 runs in the first two innings was enough to hold off the Blue Jays.

They split the series so that was good.

Hammering Hank hit a HR and Young followed up in the second.

Young pitched better than he has all season - avoiding the demotion to AAA - which I still think is probably deserved.

Cordero seems to be settling down and getting into his groove. Yay.

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