Oracle buys Sun

[Oliver Fromme]

Christian Weisgerber <naddy at mips.inka.de> wrote:
 > ovi freebsd <lists at freebsdonline.com> wrote:
 > 
 > > With Oracle now owning all the rights to what is probably the biggest 
 > > free competitor, I think the open source world shouldn't put much stock 
 > > or investment into MySQL.
 > 
 > MySQL is open source.  GPLed in fact.  So what exactly are Oracle
 > going to do to take it away from you?

It should also be noted that Oracle owns Berkeley DB for
more than three years already, and it's still open source
and under the old "Sleepycat" license (which is similar
to and compatible with the GPL).

I don't think things will be much different for MySQL.

Best regards
   Oliver

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