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Widenius Warns Against MySQL Falling Into Oracle's Hands
jamie sends in a blog post from MySQL co-founder Monty Widenius calling for help to "save MySQL from Oracle's clutches." While the US DoJ approved Oracle's purchase of Sun back in August, the European Commission has been less forthcoming. Widenius points out that Oracle has been using their customers to put pressure on the EC, and he questions Oracle's commitment to MySQL, saying their vague promises aren't good enough. He writes:
"Oracle has NOT promised (as far as I know and certainly not in a legally binding manner): To keep (all of) MySQL under an open source license; Not to add closed source parts, modules or required tools; To not raise MySQL license or MySQL support prices; To release new MySQL versions in a regular and timely manner; To continue with dual licensing and always provide affordable commercial licenses to MySQL to those who needs them (to storage vendors and application vendors) or provide MySQL under a more permissive license; To develop MySQL as an Open Source project; To actively work with the community; Apply submitted patches in a timely manner; To not discriminate patches that make MySQL compete more with Oracle's other products; To ensure that MySQL is improved also in manners that make it compete even more with Oracle's main offering."
So, now, being a very rich guy (1B is a lot of money), he wants to it back for free? That's fair... Right...
It's strangely appropriate that Neo, when he went to see the Oracle to find out that he is The One, was also shown that the reality he was constantly presented with was simply a computer manipulation. This is why "there is no spoon" was such a critical piece of the Matrix puzzle. There may be no spoon, but there can still be a fork.
The Oracle told Neo that he wasn't The One, but the Oracle was lying and just telling him what he needed to hear. The One knows that there is a fork, even if the Oracle leads him astray.
Then there was a whole lot of crap about rogue agents in the system, but the whole movie was clearly an allegory about databases and the GPL.
Widenius tell us sooner?!?
How about calling the fork 'MySQL2: The Sequel'?
SQL is pronounced .in many old timer circles as "squeal".
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Besides being a hippocrite
Whoa, is that like being a big, fat hypocrite?
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No, a hippocrite is someone who uses one set of values to judge himself and another to judge hippopotami.
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This being MySQL he can probably figure out a way to both cash the cheque and return it due to dodgy transaction somewhere.
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Maria: She goes down frequently and has no standards. Unfortunately, she's full of bugs and may silently truncate your input :(
Do you even lift?
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Bad anology. Your child wasn't kidnapped. You sold her to a pimp named Scott for a billion dollars so he could handcuff and sodomize her, then pass her around to his friends. Scott had a bad run of financial luck and was worried that his Escalade might get repossessed, so he sold her to a pimp named Larry, who will most likely sodomize and asphyxiate her because she's underdeveloped and inexperienced, which means he can't get any real money turning her out.
In summation, pimpin' ain't easy and you're a shitty parent with a dead kid.
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