2009: Open Source

Now, however, Microsoft had made an important move that gave additional weight to open source licensing.
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They had no choice: the GPL dictates that they had to licence it under a similar model since they had embedded GPL code into it. Thanks be to Novell for forcing their hand and exposing their hypocrisy.
 
The biggest threat to the open source community in the near future is the possible purchase of Sun, by Oracle... why because Sun owns MySQL DB... and Oracle as you know develops Oracle DB... so what would Oracle do with a competing open source product in there stable... develop it further... not likely... if Oracle buys Sun... I fear MySQL DB's days, as we know it, are numbered!

mr b
 
apogeeza said:
They had no choice: the GPL dictates that they had to licence it under a similar model since they had embedded GPL code into it. Thanks be to Novell for forcing their hand and exposing their hypocrisy.
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Except they rewrote a lot of it first.:rolleyes: Kinda like allowing a criminal to submit a different weapon for ballistics testing than the murder weapon he/she was caught with.
 
BGE said:
The biggest threat to the open source community in the near future is the possible purchase of Sun, by Oracle... why because Sun owns MySQL DB... and Oracle as you know develops Oracle DB... so what would Oracle do with a competing open source product in there stable... develop it further... not likely... if Oracle buys Sun... I fear MySQL DB's days, as we know it, are numbered!

mr b
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I think you've missed the most important bit about how open source works .. ;)

Even if some random company purchases MySQL .. they cannot change the license (the GPL would not permit it) and therefore even if they stop developing MySQL, there is nothing to prevent the open source community from continuing to develop it.

The worst that could happen is a fork and a name change. ;)
 
redarrow said:
I think you've missed the most important bit about how open source works .. ;)

Even if some random company purchases MySQL .. they cannot change the license (the GPL would not permit it) and therefore even if they stop developing MySQL, there is nothing to prevent the open source community from continuing to develop it.

The worst that could happen is a fork and a name change. ;)
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RedArrow, there's more to the issue than meets the eye, for the sake of brevity I didn't go into too much detail... the fork and rename have already happened... MariaDB... being developed by a small core of the original developers of MySQL... working for Monty Program AB... under the leadership of Michael Widenius(Monty)... to get to terms with the issues related to the deal and why it threatens MySQL read here...

mr b
 
True. Multiple forks already exist (lost link to them... actually not true: the search is timing out, same thing in the end :-)
 
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