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Is MySQL Slowly Turning Closed Source?

Posted by timothy on from the seems-like-a-reasonable-suspicion dept.

mpol writes "Sergei from MariaDB speculated on some changes within MySQL 5.5.27. It seems new testcases aren't included with MySQL any more, which leaves developers depending on it in the cold. 'Does this mean that test cases are no longer open source? Oracle did not reply to my question. But indeed, there is evidence that this guess is true. For example, this commit mail shows that new test cases, indeed, go in this "internal" directory, which is not included in the MySQL source distribution.' On a similar note, updates for the version history on Launchpad are not being updated anymore. What is Oracle's plan here? And is alienating the developer community just not seen as a problem at Oracle?"

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  1. Missed title opportunity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Is MySQL Slowly Turning TheirSQL?"

  2. IMHO... by ZeroPly · · Score: 5, Funny

    Look, by no means FORK! am I a SQL expert, but I still feel FORK! compelled to express my FORK! opinon here. Face it folks, Oracle FORK! is evil. That said, if there is some way FORK! to create a parallel version, a version FORK! not intended to pay for a yacht, I would FORK! be all for it.

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  3. Re:Translation by MaerD · · Score: 5, Funny

    oracle is actually an acronym: One Rich Asshole Ceo, Larry Ellison

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  4. Re:Oracle doesn't care about developer people by maroberts · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't want LAPP...

    Don't projects get Finn-ished when you use LAPP?

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  5. Re:Oracle doesn't care about developer people by RichardJenkins · · Score: 5, Funny

    Clearly they were so overwhelmed by their success with OpenOffice they want to replicate it with MySQL.

  6. Re:Oracle doesn't care about developer people by M1FCJ · · Score: 5, Funny

    At least he's not using FreeBSD, Apache, PostgreSQL and PHP...

  7. Re:Translation by Bill+Dimm · · Score: 5, Funny

    I believe it is One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison