Sorry to say, what you just said is just BS. you are so misinformed. Mysql - Contrary to what you said. Mysql still open source, Licensed under GNU General Public License v2. Further, its under active development with latest version 5.5.12 released on May 5, 2011; 11 days ago. if you were using it till now, I see no reason to stop using it
Skype - It was/is closed source software using a proprietary protocol. whoever told you that skype was opensource was WRONG! About your concern of conversion of from opensource to proprietary license. Let me remind you, there are safeguard provisions under the GPL will not allow this and further, any any given time, open source projects can forked. so even if the company decides to do further development under proprietary license which is highly unlikely but if that happen, The project can forked, development goes on. OpenOffice vs LibreOffice is a example. so you can be sure that all great open source software you are using till now are going to stay open source. Love OpenSource, Stay OpenSource & Stop Worrying ;) Regards, Gaurish Sharma -- LUG@IITD - http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
