Help keep the Internet free
Hi! We have just launched a worldwide, multilingual petition at http://helpmysql.org to get signatures to show the regulators in the EU and other places that it's important that MySQL continues to be available and developed as a strong Open Source product for all database needs. If you care about the future of MySQL as an Open Source product, please go and sign the petition and tell others about it! We are also searching for volunteers that can help us with gathering names for the petition. If you have a bit a spare time and think that MySQL is worth saving, please join us on the #helpmysql IRC channel on Freenode and help us with spreading the world and gather names! You can make a real difference, wherever you are in the world! The more names we are able to get, the higher the chance is that we can keep MySQL free and available for all! Don't be fooled by the empty promises Oracle have given about the future of MySQL. I examined them in my previous blog post at http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/12/oracle-gives-only-empty-promises-fo r.html and showed that Oracle is not really promising anything; Not even that the Open Source version of MySQL will be developed further. Thanks to everyone that helped us with the previous campaign. It was of great help, but probably not enough, which is why we had to start this new campaign to gather even more names. This time we will be able to use the names to influence decisions worldwide (not just in the EU) and we will get more public attention. This will be far more powerful. During the previous campaign there was a lot of discussions in different medias about my incentives for driving it. I have tried to answer most of these concerns in my latest blogpost: http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/12/help-keep-internet-free.html Help us keep the Infrastructure of the Internet free! Regards, Monty Creator of MySQL -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
Re: Help keep the Internet free
I would encourage everyone on this list to at least read the two articles Fox in the henhouse (http://helpmysql.org/en/theissue/foxinthehenhouse) and GPL is not the answer (http://helpmysql.org/en/theissue/gplisnottheanswer) You may or may not agree with those, but at least then you'll have made an educated decision whether to sign the petition or not. (Disclaimer: I'm a former employee of MySQL AB/Inc, but left before MySQL was bought up by Sun). / Carsten Michael Widenius skrev: Hi! We have just launched a worldwide, multilingual petition at http://helpmysql.org to get signatures to show the regulators in the EU and other places that it's important that MySQL continues to be available and developed as a strong Open Source product for all database needs. If you care about the future of MySQL as an Open Source product, please go and sign the petition and tell others about it! We are also searching for volunteers that can help us with gathering names for the petition. If you have a bit a spare time and think that MySQL is worth saving, please join us on the #helpmysql IRC channel on Freenode and help us with spreading the world and gather names! You can make a real difference, wherever you are in the world! The more names we are able to get, the higher the chance is that we can keep MySQL free and available for all! Don't be fooled by the empty promises Oracle have given about the future of MySQL. I examined them in my previous blog post at http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/12/oracle-gives-only-empty-promises-fo r.html and showed that Oracle is not really promising anything; Not even that the Open Source version of MySQL will be developed further. Thanks to everyone that helped us with the previous campaign. It was of great help, but probably not enough, which is why we had to start this new campaign to gather even more names. This time we will be able to use the names to influence decisions worldwide (not just in the EU) and we will get more public attention. This will be far more powerful. During the previous campaign there was a lot of discussions in different medias about my incentives for driving it. I have tried to answer most of these concerns in my latest blogpost: http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/12/help-keep-internet-free.html Help us keep the Infrastructure of the Internet free! Regards, Monty Creator of MySQL -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
RE: Help keep the Internet free
I am from Indonesia, have been use The Great MySQL for 10 years in development and production environments. Count me in. Willy Sent from my Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1. -Original Message- From: Michael Widenius mo...@askmonty.org Sent: 29 December 2009 19:59 To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Help keep the Internet free Hi! We have just launched a worldwide, multilingual petition at http://helpmysql.org to get signatures to show the regulators in the EU and other places that it's important that MySQL continues to be available and developed as a strong Open Source product for all database needs. If you care about the future of MySQL as an Open Source product, please go and sign the petition and tell others about it! We are also searching for volunteers that can help us with gathering names for the petition. If you have a bit a spare time and think that MySQL is worth saving, please join us on the #helpmysql IRC channel on Freenode and help us with spreading the world and gather names! You can make a real difference, wherever you are in the world! The more names we are able to get, the higher the chance is that we can keep MySQL free and available for all! Don't be fooled by the empty promises Oracle have given about the future of MySQL. I examined them in my previous blog post at http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/12/oracle-gives-only-empty-promises-fo r.html and showed that Oracle is not really promising anything; Not even that the Open Source version of MySQL will be developed further. Thanks to everyone that helped us with the previous campaign. It was of great help, but probably not enough, which is why we had to start this new campaign to gather even more names. This time we will be able to use the names to influence decisions worldwide (not just in the EU) and we will get more public attention. This will be far more powerful. During the previous campaign there was a lot of discussions in different medias about my incentives for driving it. I have tried to answer most of these concerns in my latest blogpost: http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/12/help-keep-internet-free.html Help us keep the Infrastructure of the Internet free! Regards, Monty Creator of MySQL -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:htt [The entire original message is not included] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
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I would encourage everyone on this list to at least read the two articles Fox in the henhouse (http://helpmysql.org/en/theissue/foxinthehenhouse) and GPL is not the answer (http://helpmysql.org/en/theissue/gplisnottheanswer) You may or may not agree with those, but at least then you'll have made an educated decision whether to sign the petition or not. (Disclaimer: I'm a former employee of MySQL AB/Inc, but left before MySQL was bought up by Sun). / Carsten Michael Widenius skrev: Hi! We have just launched a worldwide, multilingual petition at http://helpmysql.org to get signatures to show the regulators in the EU and other places that it's important that MySQL continues to be available and developed as a strong Open Source product for all database needs. If you care about the future of MySQL as an Open Source product, please go and sign the petition and tell others about it! We are also searching for volunteers that can help us with gathering names for the petition. If you have a bit a spare time and think that MySQL is worth saving, please join us on the #helpmysql IRC channel on Freenode and help us with spreading the world and gather names! You can make a real difference, wherever you are in the world! The more names we are able to get, the higher the chance is that we can keep MySQL free and available for all! Don't be fooled by the empty promises Oracle have given about the future of MySQL. I examined them in my previous blog post at http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/12/oracle-gives-only-empty-promises-fo r.html and showed that Oracle is not really promising anything; Not even that the Open Source version of MySQL will be developed further. Thanks to everyone that helped us with the previous campaign. It was of great help, but probably not enough, which is why we had to start this new campaign to gather even more names. This time we will be able to use the names to influence decisions worldwide (not just in the EU) and we will get more public attention. This will be far more powerful. During the previous campaign there was a lot of discussions in different medias about my incentives for driving it. I have tried to answer most of these concerns in my latest blogpost: http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/12/help-keep-internet-free.html Help us keep the Infrastructure of the Internet free! Regards, Monty Creator of MySQL -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
Re: Help keep the Internet free
Monty, Good looking site. I just signed the petition and hope others will too. Go get'em Monty! Mike -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org