On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 11:43 -0500, Arc Riley wrote:
> We have PostgreSQL, which has a much healthier development community
> and Py3 support already.
>
> The MySQL community is already fractured from the Sun purchase, isn't
> it a little late to save it?
Sun did not do too much harm. MySQL fills
The feelings on the Oracle acquisition seem quite split in the open source
community. Eben Moglen of the Software Freedom Law Center wrote an opinion
to the European Commission in favor of the acquisition [1] and Pamela Jones
of Groklaw has written a few articles about the merger in support includi
It is a sad situation, but one that happens every once in a while, and
particularly when a profit-making company heads up a FOSS project.
In 2008 Sun bought MySQL for 1 Billion dollars, 800 million in cash and
200 million in options. Someone got a lot of money, and quite a few
people probably con
No, but its a sign of developer interest and activity. Sqlite and postgres
have Py3 support, MySQL does not.
On Jan 1, 2010 2:43 PM, "Ben Scott" wrote:
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Arc Riley wrote: > We
have PostgreSQL, which h...
Shocking though this may be to some, Python support is not
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Arc Riley wrote:
> We have PostgreSQL, which has a much healthier development community and Py3
> support already.
Shocking though this may be to some, Python support is not
*everyone's* most critical feature.
-- Ben
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Ted Roche wrote:
> Passing on this email. I'd be interested in your opinions of the issues
> raised.
MySQL is GPL. Oracle can do whatever they want, but the code itself
has already been freed (as in freedom). Oracle can't put that genie
back in the bottle. Th
We have PostgreSQL, which has a much healthier development community and Py3
support already.
The MySQL community is already fractured from the Sun purchase, isn't it a
little late to save it?
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Ted Roche wrote:
> Passing on this email. I'd be interested in your
Passing on this email. I'd be interested in your opinions of the issues
raised.
Hi!
I am contacting you because you have in the past shown interest in
MySQL and from that I assume you are interested in the future
well-being of MySQL.
Now you have a unique opportunity to make a difference. By
