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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The people who work on MySQL can leave Oracle/Sun and go found their own company again with the forked source code. It's not like that hasn't happened before. Given the popularity of MySQL, I'm sure they could secure funding for such a venture.
In any case, Percona is already effectively doing just that. They have their own build of MySQL that people are actually using. If they just hire on the remaining engineers from Oracle, the end result will be the same.