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

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at opengroupware.us
Tue Dec 15 11:06:18 EST 2009


> 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.

No, bait-and-switch there at all.  The license was X - there
plain-as-day published on the Internet - they contributed code, the
license X allows Monty to sell MySQL (in this fashion).

Where is the switch?





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