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MySQL Reverses Decision On Closed Source

Posted by kdawson on from the good-on-them dept.

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."

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  1. Good for Sun by trybywrench · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Good for them.

    Sun has been in the back of my mind a lot lately. I like their Sunfire servers and will be needing a decent 2U server in about 6 months. Maybe i'll buy one from them.

    Wow good PR works ;)

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  2. Re:Red Hat Global File System. by willyhill · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Anyone posting on this thread should be aware that twitter and gnutoo are the same person.

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