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Stallman Urges EC to Stop Oracle Acquisition of Sun

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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RE: Forking isn't enough

by WorknMan on Sat 24th Oct 2009 17:32 UTC in reply to "Forking isn't enough"

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People keep mentioning the "obvious" truth that since MySQL is open source, it can be forked and continued. That is true, but only in theory. Practical reality is that projects need BACKING. That backing either needs to be sheer enthusiasm or it needs to be money. Most of the time, it's money.

I was going to post something of this nature, but you pretty much nailed it. People can talk about Free Software and Free Love all day long, but at the end of the day, it's money that makes the world go 'round. Without proper funding, this project will go nowhere when/if Oracle dumps it.

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