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Mirza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/09/2005 14:31:12:
> <pissed>
> I would like someone from MySQL AB to clarify issue with SCO asap. I
> wouldn't like to use technologies for my business that later could be
> used against me (in legal sense). Does MySQL AB understand that it helps
> funding their legal cases against us (GPL users) ? If someone feels OK
> with SCO partnership, good luck, but (being long time MySQL user and
> alpha bug reporter) I would switch to Embedded PostgreSQL myself and
> encourage other people to do the same. I use _tons_ of GPL software so
> should I help funding of my own annoyance (albeit poorly supported with
> facts) ?
> </pissed>
All the press releases I have seen appear to originate from SCO. There is
not, in any of them, any suggestion that money has passed or will pass
from MySQL to SCO. SCO has for a long time been one of the many varieties
of Unix that MySQL supports. MySQL cannot stop SCO from distributing their
product (hypocritically) under the GPL. On the other hand, if they allow
SCO to include "offical" releases of MySQL, they may get some support
customers - which is where they earn their real income. The press blurbs
are essentially saying that SCO resellers will market MySQL Network - to
the benefit of MySQL. If there is any money flow, I would have thought it
would be more likely to be the other way: SCO paying MySQL to ensure that
one of the premier Unix applications remains supported on their platform.
Of course, MySQL may say otherwise, but I think this is a piece of SCO
hype intended to imply MySQL support of SCO when all they are really doing
is supporting their own product on whatever platform their customers may
choose - even when that platform is marketed by a company who many of us
find totally repulsive. If you let yourself be hyped into dropping MySQL,
you will be harming a company that is, in my opinion, a model of how to
provide full commercial quality software (or better) with an Open Source
licence, while not (I think) harming SCO in any way.
Alec Cawley
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