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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2006-01-14
theosib is the only one that hit the point. Its all about the commercial use of MySQL. MySQL will always exist as GPL software. But many companies are using it as part of their application stack. That requires a license, which now Oracle owns. Its a bit of a conflict for them to own two of the most popular database systems.
EDIT: I see that Postgres is BSD licensed, so its not all bad. But it would still cost the developers using MySQL commercially a lot of money to switch over.
Edited 2009-10-23 16:56 UTC