Open Source Licensing - Cuts Both Ways?

Posted by Hemos on Monday April 4, 2005 @02:04AM from the up-for-debate dept.

shortscruffydave writes "The Register is running a piece Open source databases - a sword that cuts both ways? which mentions one of the potential pitfalls of open source databases: "Open source is just another licensing model: the more accepted it becomes, the more it is adopted at a strategic level, the more it plays back into the hands of the traditional behemoths that dominate the industry". " I couldn't disagree more with the author of this piece, since I think the success of Postgres & MySQL are already contra-proof positive, but the piece is still an interesting read.

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This article has no point. by Evro · 2005-04-04 02:10 · Score: 4, Informative

"Dude, you're giving IBM free shit... they're not going to return the favor."

Except they have? Article looks like flamebait/trolling to me, or else just ignorance.

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Re:OpenSourcing a DB by kevin_conaway · 2005-04-04 02:21 · Score: 5, Informative

You don't need open source for this. Merely publishing an API and an SDK would accomplish that.