MySQL Reverses Decision On Closed Source

krow writes "I am very happy to be announcing that MySQL will be forgoing close sourcing portions of the MySQL Server. Kaj has the official statement in his blog. No portion of the server will be closed source including backup, encryption, or any storage engines we ship. To quote Kaj 'The encryption and compression backup features will be open source.' This is a change from what was previously posted here on Slashdot. I've posted some additional thoughts on my own blog concerning how we keep open source from becoming crippleware. Word has it that we will also have a panel at this year's OSCON discussing this topic. Contrary to the previous Slashdot discussion, this shows Sun's continued commitment to Open Source."

Comments

Re:Good day for all

[Jherek Carnelian]

I'm glad that Sun was able to convince the MySQL staff to not close source any of the codebase. Totally! Don't you hate it when you buy a company and they won't do what you tell them?
Good thing Sun was able to convince Sun to stick to Sun's official policy.

Re:More like...

[Anonymous Coward]

Noyourwrong.

Re:Alternate interpretation of events...

[Anonymous Coward]

The original Slashdot story was inflammatory and designed to mislead, and now it has had the desired effect. New to /.?

Re:Lol Slashdot is too much

[njcoder]

You may have said something that makes sense. All I keep thinking is I'm hungry.

Closed source... no wait, open source

[c_stromblad]

Whichever side you're on in this never ending battle between the choice of open source or closed source I find it most interesting that sun is "committed" to open source. How come? The acquire MySQL, try to make parts of it closed source and ... then because of market forces decide not to do it. Then in some weird market propaganda they are suddenly committed to open source.

Ha, good one.