MySQL and SCO Join Forces

matchboy writes "CNET is reporting that MySQL and SCO have signed a partnership to work on "joint certification, marketing, sales, training and business development work for a version of the database for SCO's new OpenServer 6 version of Unix." Why would MySQL decide to work directly with a company that has deemed the GPL as unconstitutional?"

Comments

Letters to MySQL owners

[ErikPeterson]

How long until everyone who was ever used or submitted to a db that runs MySQL gets a letter asking for money or having a lawsuit on their hands for using SCO software ;)

Re:One question?

[CowboyBob500]

*dons flameproof suit*

Well condering that SQL is pronounced ess-cue-ell and not sequel, PostgreSQL is pronounced post-gress-cue-ell.

Bob

Re:Is the whole company evil, or just the top exec

[HRbnjR]

"Man, my job is just to pull the lever on this here gas chamber, I don't really care what they are putting in there, or what the politics of the top exec of this Nazi organization are. I just show up to work and try to do my job as good and efficiently as I can."

flamebait??

[HRbnjR]

The parent is being moderated as flamebait?!?!

If a post makes it point too effectively, it's modded as flamebait? Whoever moderated that needs to get a clue...

The Nazi analogy, albeit at the extreme end of the spectrum, is a perfectly valid one - and serves to really hammer home the point I was tyring to make: that you can't just blindly follow orders with no regard for how your actions impact the bigger picture. Whether you write code for SCO, or pull the gas chamber lever, you need to examine how your actions support the greater organization and it's agenda.

Re:flamebait??

[HRbnjR]

The fact that the benign fact-based statements which comprise the content of the parent post make you feel that way betrays your lack of self-esteem. There was no affront to you, yet, due to whatever baggage you have, you seem to interpret it that way. It must be sad to live in a world where your need for acceptance ("better liked") overrides all your thinking - making you a slave to your peer group, and unable to stand on your own to express any independent thought. I bet you were the kid that needed mommy to buy you the 'right' brand of shoes for school so you could get that all-valuable acceptance from your peers. Sheep. Now you take weak jabs at people online while hiding behind anonymity. Coward. Perhaps if you were more clever you would be able to come out of anonymity and formulate a rebuttal to the opinions I expressed, rather than relying on an anonymous personal attack.

Re:Now about SCO, this is my opinion, not MySQL's

[SpacePunk]

MySQL isn't just providing binaries to the users or SCO's garbage. It's partnered with SCO. That's like sleeping with the crack whore of operating systems, then claiming there is no sex involved.