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MySQL CEO Interview
someonewhois writes "MySQL's CEO, Marten Mickos, says 'Open source & MySQL will rise, legal foes will fall', in a bold prediction that legal issues will continue to be ignored as a threat towards open source, and that software patents will harm the industry (well, duh)."
>he's saying (and I agree) that software patents harm the industry as a whole.
Does he really care about the industry? He cares about it because he cares about his company first. If his company became the entire industry (was a monopoly) do you think that he would care about the other companies who used to make up of the industry? Do you think that he would avoid sales or profits (short or long term) so other companies in the industry can benefit?
Why do you care about the industry? Because it provides you a job? No, a company does that. Because you like programming? You don't need commerical ventures to do this, its can be a hobby?
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