Hi,
I have been reading this thread with lot of interest.
I still ask myself "Why" for those who haven't one or more MySQL
solutions deployed to their Customers, this represent such an issue?
It turns out that MySQL is simply not a viable solution for many. It
also shows that MySQL is ever so popular mainly because of the
"Internet" years (1999-2000) where the only DB to everyone was the
"free" MySQL along with PHP, and still sems to be a free DB as it is
always available with any ISP around the world.
Now, MySQL seems to have the advantage over Postgres for the
installation process. But, what about OpenBase, Valentina etc...? I
don't mention RBSQL along with the RB server, as I don't know if it is a
serious enough DB or those who need MySQL alike perfs.
I looks like that a commercial DB with reasonable fees (ie. Valentina)
with proper dedicated service is simply cheaper and less dangerous in
term of understanding your rights.
Just my 2 cents.
Cheers,
Youri
Daniel L. Taylor wrote:
About reverse engineering: In the old days, Compaq started making
IBM clones after they had IBM's PCs reverse engineered by a third
party company. They didn't reverse engineer it themselves to avoid
liability. They just bought 'specifications' from that third party
company which happened to be identical to the specifications of IBM's
PCs--obviously by total coincidence. Nowadays this kind of joyriding
doesn't hold anymore before a court of law, so forget about reverse
engineering. And in this case it would basically be just the same as
implementing their protocol which is already published anyway, so why
would anyone bother to reverse engineer it? ;-)
If I were still using MySQL, I would migrate to Postgres before reverse
engineering the protocol. But I find your take on this interesting. So
much stuff historically has been reverse engineered legally that I would
think a protocol would be hard to protect. (Consider WINE.) Of course
I'm not a lawyer, and wouldn't risk my business on it.
On a side note, I bet a case could be made against Real Software for
not publishing all of REALbasic Pro's code under GPL, since it comes
with their open MySQL plugin and obviously links to it through the
debugger. But since they've been warned by me years ago already and
now again in this thread, I'm sure the folks at Real Software know
what they do.
I've been wondering the same thing this entire time.
Daniel L. Taylor
Taylor Design
Computer Consulting & Software Development
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.taylor-design.com
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