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Sunday, April 20, 2008

MySQL may close parts of the code or rather...

"All,

I tried to clarify the facts in another posting a moment ago: http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=525246&cid=23098626

Here I will discuss the business model considerations, MySQL's commitment to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), and why we made the decision we made."


This is from the /. forum, so its best you read it yourself. Its not anything too new... but it does make SUN look kinda bad (at least that was my first impression), still kudos to the ex CEO of mySQL to speak up and clarify (it was the correct move to make for them) and apparently it is just the same issue with the previous incarnation of mySQL (well if you dunno go read up...)

I think it is a pragmatic choice of doing things, and I laud it, but it must be carefully managed, since it is all too easy to do something close (even if a portion) and that close bit happens to be all that is good about the product while neglecting the open and arguable the original purpose of the whole project.

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