Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 22nd Oct 2009 21:38 UTC, submitted by google_ninja
"Digital civil liberties organization Open Rights Group, Knowledge Ecology International and software developer Richard Stallman tell the EC in a letter that they are concerned about Oracle's possible squashing of competition in the database market by abandoning MySQL."
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2007-07-25
How I see it, its only 3 realistic outcomes of this:
Scenario 1) Sun get bought by Oracle and MySQL is still GPL. Anyone can pick up the development if Oracle stops distributing MySQL but must keep it GPL.
Scenario 2) Sun gets bought by someone else and MySQL is still GPL. Anyone can pick up the development if the buyer stops distributing MySQL but must keep it GPL.
Scenario 3) Sun gets bankrupt and MySQL is still GPL. Anyone can pick up the development but must keep it GPL.
What is Stallman's problem exactly? In either case, MySQL is GPL. I thought that was his goal with any rant? If those three choices are the only realistic outcomes of this thing then I prefer Oracle buying it since they have shitloads of money and may be the only way to continue corporate financed MySQL development.
Edited 2009-10-23 05:25 UTC