At 06:30 PM 8/24/2006, David Hillman wrote:
On Aug 24, 2006, at 6:13 PM, Daniel Kasak wrote:
That's just how software develops. People start with the later- versioned
product, with full features and zero bugs, and progressively remove
features and add bugs, while decreasing the version number.
I've looked all over the web, and found nothing, so hopefully
someone here can help... where can I download MySQL 10 from?
;)
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David,
MySQL 10 came out quite a while ago and is now obsolete. MySQL 10
of course had been totally free and since it worked so well, it nearly
killed off all the competition. Legislation was quickly passed in order to
make things fair for other database manufacturers by forcing the
programmers to make radical changes to the MySQL 10 engine. The engine had
far too many features and worked too well so the programmers have been
stripping out features and adding bugs for the past 5 years. They also had
to slow it down because people were getting results in 0ms which led people
to think the results were inaccurate even though they weren't. Delay loops
had to be added along with random disk access to give people the impression
a lot of work was being processed by the MySQL engine. They also discovered
getting perfect answers each time had created its own problems. Accounting
systems written in MySQL 10 produced highly accurate Income Statements and
Balance Sheets correctly the first time they were run, causing much
embarrassment at stock holders meetings for revealing improprieties by the
board. Bugs had to be added to the MySQL engine and the SQL syntax had to
be obfuscated in order to introduce calculation mistakes so the CEO's could
have "someone" to blame and thereby avoid criminal prosecution. Since MySQL
10 was totally free for both personal and commercial use without any
restrictions whatsoever, royalties were quickly introduced to try and limit
the number of people using the product. All of this of course took years to
accomplish. What we're left with is what we have now. <g,d&r>
Mike
(Just kidding Monty - Please don't key my car!)
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