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Sun May Begin Close Sourcing MySQL Features

Posted by samzenpus on from the closing-up dept.

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."

16 of 509 comments (clear)

  1. Re:This is great news.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Close sourcing is never good news for anyone...
    Tell that to the Chinese. We lost our manufacturing base to them. They source all of our close we wear nowadays.
  2. Sun to Begin Close Sourcing MySQL by brianc · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh, no they don't. They can't do that to MySQL.

    They can do it to TheirSQL, but not MySQL...

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    SIGLOST && SIGUNUSED && SIGQUIT
  3. Re:This is great news.... by MadnessASAP · · Score: 5, Funny
    Even nicer PostreSQL has an animal mascot, I can see the jokes now: A Penguin, Indian and Elephant walk into a bar...

    We even still get a pronounceable acronym LAPP. It looks like the future is still rosy for the rest of us.

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  4. Can you say... by TheSHAD0W · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...YourSQL?

  5. Re:harsh judgement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    quiet! stop ruining my argument with facts

  6. Re:What the hell? by ahankinson · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ok, so other than Java, and Solaris and ZFS and OpenOffice and OpenSparc, Netbeans, NFS, Glassfish or Open Windows, what have the Romans^WSun ever given us?

  7. Re:This is great news.... by Sancho · · Score: 5, Funny

    Eh, Linux is ok on the desktop, but for servers, I really prefer FreeBSD.

    Sometimes I get tired of that, and use NetBSD for a while. A short stint with NetBSD, Apache, Postgresql, and PHP usually refreshes me long enough so that I can FreeBSD, Apache, Postgresql, and PHP again.

  8. Re:Sun? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't know what to think now. Think "This is Slashdot. The summary is probably way off base."

    Think "the former CEO of MySQL posted a cogent response to this confirming that the summary is way off base."

    Think "I really ought to read some of the comments before I freak out."

    Think "It's Wednesday; we're supposed to hate Sun on *Thursdays*."
  9. Re:This is great news.... by mindsuck · · Score: 2, Funny

    Eh, Linux is ok on the desktop, but for servers, I really prefer FreeBSD. Sometimes I get tired of that, and use NetBSD for a while. A short stint with NetBSD, Apache, Postgresql, and PHP usually refreshes me long enough so that I can FreeBSD, Apache, Postgresql, and PHP again. So, you FAPP, NAPP and then FAPP again?
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    --- I w00t, therefore I'm l33t.
  10. Re:This is great news.... by Sancho · · Score: 5, Funny

    That would be the joke, but I was going for a touch more subtlety.

  11. Re:Comments from MySQL by scribblej · · Score: 5, Funny

    He posts here all the time! You just have to browse at -1...

  12. Forking by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Fork, Fork, Fork!!! Stick a fork in Sun they are done.

  13. Re:This is great news.... by Kennon · · Score: 5, Funny
    Or how about: OurSQL...bitches.

    yeah the whole thing.

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  14. Re:Comments from MySQL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "When was last time Bill Gates posted a reply on slashdot?"

    I do all the time

  15. Re:This is great news.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    No,

    RSQL.

    Sounds like our SQL.

  16. Re:This is great news.... by Hognoxious · · Score: 2, Funny

    Q. What's the difference between a Scotsman with an extended family that are very fond of making lame wordplay jokes and Baldrick from Blackadder?

    A. One has a punning clan...

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    Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."