[mdlug] Open source MySQL - MySQL Creator: Oracle to Purchase Sun which Owns M ySQL

[Aaron Kulkis]

David Lane wrote:
> That may be but MySQL caused Oracle to do a lot of things recently that they did not do 10 or 12 years ago.  
> 


> I might be a sell out too because if I'm offered 1 B$ thats $1,000 Million thats 1,000,000,000 Dallors for your pet project I think you will get a lot of takers.  That could fund a really cool new pet project.
> 


Personally, I have a problem with Monty selling MySQL ... because
other people who contributed to the source code didn't get distributions
from the big buyout.  Kind of a "bait and switch" if you ask me.

> Now for the rest of us, YES I am concerned because I dont trust Oracle.  Now if they charged 59.99 for a boxed copy that I can load on any computer Windows/Linux/Unix I want as many times I want. Oracle has been bleeding in the last years I know Oracle is trying to figure out how to make money off of the many many MySql users. 
>

The reason we don't trust Oracle is because it's in Oracle's
best interest to cap MySQL development, and the company's
officers have a legal, fiduciary responsibility to do so
[because they are a publicly held company -- if Oracle was
a privately held company -- that is, the stock is not available
for sale on the stock exchange -- there would be no legal
obligation to keep free-for use MySQL from making inroads
against pay-for-use products].

And as most people on here know, I come from a very libertarian
outlook.

> My question is that How come this sale get approved so fast in the U.S.?
>

My guess is the same sort of political favors that were rampant
in the 1880's-1890's ("robber baron capitalism" is actually socialization
of costs, but not profits for politically well-connected businessmen.
See also: The mortgage finance mess)

 
> 
> David C. Lane 
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> Subject: Re: [mdlug] Open source MySQL - MySQL Creator: Oracle to Purchase Sun which Owns M ySQL
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> gib at juno.com wrote:
>>   
>> MySQL Creator: Oracle to Purchase Sun which Owns MySQL.
>> " . . . Michael "Monty" Widenius, the creator of MySQL, is asking you urgently to help save MySQL from Oracle's clutches".
>>   
>> http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/12/help-saving-mysql.html
> 
> He's crying wolf.
> It's open source, which means there's nothing to prevent
> it from being forked ("YourSQL" ???)
> 
> I think this has more to do with trying to generate
> publicity for, and stifle competition to his new
> start up, "Monty Program AB"
> 
> The guy is a hypocrite.  He wants to have his cake and
> eat it to -- he sold MySQL, but wants to retain control
> of it.  (As if there's any way that ANYONE, including
> Oracle, can actually exert 100% control over any open
> source product)
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