On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Anne Wilson <annew(a)kde.org> wrote:
On Thursday 23 April 2009 22:33:20 Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> Max Pyziur wrote:
> > "This is a monster step backward for those of us who are committed to
> > sustaining open source," said Lev Gonick, chief information officer at
> > Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, who uses database software
> > from Oracle as well as MySQL. "I have no doubt that this is an attempt to
> > kill the competition."
>
> If Oracle thinks that their $7 billion is going to killing MySQL, they
> are sorely mistaken. Companies come and go. FOSS endures, and so will
> MySQL.
>
So if I were in their shoes I'd want to make some money out of it. Oops -
isn't that what they are planning?
Anne
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I thought since it is open source ... other peoples codes are in there
and should remain free... since they (oracle) have support the
community in the past I am sure they would not want to go against the
open source community.
So my thoughts is it would remain free...
Oluwagbenga