On Wednesday 22 Apr 2009, Nalin Savara wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Gora Mohanty <g...@sarai.net> wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:22:49 +0530 > > Nalin Savara <nsn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > [...] > > > > > I think this is a good opportunity for Oracle to make strategic > > > moves-- similar to Microsoft corp-- and to try to monetize many > > > users who are now locked in onto LAMP. > > > > [...] > > > > Would you care to explain how exactly people are "locked into > > LAMP", and why Oracle "monetizing" them is a good thing for > > people at large? > > (1) How are people "locked into Lamp" ? > --> because many people/sites use Drupal, Joomla, PHP etc-- and > incase a particular platform vendor decides to fork the offering into > a premium and non-premium offering; then it is easier for them to pay > for premium service than to take the risk of re-engineering tens of > thousands of code to use a different underlying platform component > eg: database.
Since as of today MySQL is GPL, you cannot force a single user of MySQL in a FOSS application to pay you a single paisa. Sorry to bust your dreams, but Oracle can only make people pay from the next release of MySQL (if they switch it to a proprietary licence), and those people can still continue to use the current release and forks thereof with no problems and no payment. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur r...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
