Open Source Licensing - Cuts Both Ways?

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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Re:I call bull

[cosinezero]

So you've never picked up a piece of software and didn't have to call someone for help?

Funny, I don't recall ever needing anything more than a help file on a vast majority of software I use... God help us if WinAMP required support.