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Sun May Begin Close Sourcing MySQL Features
An anonymous reader writes "From the MySQL User's Conference, Sun has announced, and former CEO Marten Mickos has confirmed, that Sun will be close sourcing sections of the MySQL code base. Sun will begin with close sourcing the backup solutions to MySQL, and will continue with more advanced features. With Oracle owning Innodb, and it being GPL, does this mean that MySQL will be removing it to introduce these features? Sun has had a very poor history of actually open sourcing anything."
Sun is run by a bunch of nigger jews. Is anyone really surprised by this?
...because someone with the source will fork it.
Sun appears to have made a bonehead move. Now the masses will turn somewhere else for high-quality FOSS SQL...
I like MySQL, I have no real issues with it. But if it's going closed source, I say let it be. Time to put energy behind Postgresql
"Thanks for all the money you paid to us. We've used it to buy off ISO among other things" -Microsoft
Look at the half-assed job they did with java. It took something like 2 years after they released the code that a truly free implementation was achievable. And look at the Java stuff that isn't free. The browser plugin (which they recently came out with a new version of, IIRC), J2ME.
They also purposefully chose the license of OpenSolaris so that it wouldn't be useful to Linux.
They get to say how open source friendly they are, but it comes with strings attached. I think it would serve one well to view their initiatives with skepticism.
MySQL was outstanding. At least in my opinion. Where Oracle took 2 GB of space to download then had to be burned to a CD, MySQL was a lightweight, straight-forward relational database managment system.
:-(
Closing off MySQL will have serious consequences for PHP and C developers since SUN will rewrite the entire MySQL API strictly in Java.
Perhaps now would be a good time to migrate to PostgreSQL.
Goodbye MySQL.
The Rapture is NOT an exit strategy.
Huh? WTF? Wait... how the fuck did I miss that? Fucking fuckity frick frack fuckk
Sun owns mysql??? Where were the air raid warning sirens? Who cares what they do with the source, nothing good will come from this. Java.. phffffft.
Seriously where have I been that I missed the great Scandinavian sell out. This is like that time Yoko met John. All down hill fromnow on...
ISTR that iSQL is the name of the command-line client for Sybase.
How about SQOOLMy? (pronounced 'school me')
Same letters as before, only with some leftover 'OO' pixie dust from the Clinton Administration mixed in.
Just no way to work XML in there while remaining mellifluous, alas.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
How can false opinionated stories like this be published? With it being Sun Week on campus, I've had some recent (yesterday) exposure and discussions with some of their representatives. Sun singlehandedly contributes the majority (Yes, above 50%) of Open Source code in the online community, thanks to their newly acquired MySQL. Read More, and next time get your facts right.