MySQL CEO Insists He's Not Supping With The Devil

Posted by Zonk on Saturday October 22, 2005 @08:41AM from the eye-of-the-beholder dept.

jg21 writes "In the continuing saga of the decision by MySQL previously discussed here on Slashdot to make a deal with SCO Group, the company's CEO Marten Mickos has now granted an interview in which he addresses the inevitable criticism that the deal has provoked in the F/OSS community. His main defense seems to be that other companies have ported to SCO too. He admits money too played a part." From the article: "We believe that porting a GPL version of MySQL for the SCO OpenServer platform gives thousands of users more options when it comes to choosing a database -- which is a good thing. The deal produces revenue for us and this allows us to hire more open source developers. We didn't make the decision lightly; we knew SCO was a sensitive subject with the free software and open source communities."

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Re:Bullshit. by schon · 2005-10-22 12:39 · Score: 0, Troll

SCO and the OpenServer platform are dieing.

And this has exactly what to do with it?

It's OK to make help an evil party as long as they're not going to last long?

This was a quick cash grab and nothing more.

Which is (again) irrelevant. SCOX is an evil company that has assaulted the F/OSS community, and has spent millions of dollars (which they didn't actually own) to try to kill the GPL and Linux. By aiding SCOX (and yes, they *ARE* aiding them), MySQL is declaring their allegiance loud and clear.