Apparently, in an attempt to "embrace and extend" Open Source, Microsoft released some developers they'd previously kept in cages to contribute to certain OSS projects.

At least that's my theory:

(13:27:28) Cliff: apparently in some versions of mysql
(13:27:41) jms@jabber.imr-net.com: nod
(13:27:42) Cliff: theres an option --default-storage-engine=innodb
(13:27:45) Cliff: in others
(13:27:46) Cliff: there isn't
(13:28:04) jms@jabber.imr-net.com: haha
(13:28:05) jms@jabber.imr-net.com: nice
(13:28:11) jms@jabber.imr-net.com: What versions?
(13:28:19) jms@jabber.imr-net.com: You're not using innodb somewhere, or you are?
(13:28:49) Cliff: trying to
(13:28:57) Cliff: i'm not, a hosting customer is
(13:29:04) Cliff: i won't use mysql
(13:29:22) jms@jabber.imr-net.com: Wow
(13:29:23) jms@jabber.imr-net.com: Bitter
(13:29:27) Cliff: it's crap
(13:29:36) jms@jabber.imr-net.com: I wish you would blog this.