"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."

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 -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature?  Add it to UserBase -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list(a)redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines

> 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?