--- On Tue, 4/21/09, Aaron Toponce <aaron.topo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Oracle is every bit as proprietary as Microsoft, and they have > a reputation around where I work as being a bully, very "dog > eat dog'.
Whatever Oracle's reputation for cutthroat business in the proprietary arena, the company does also support a few open source projects. In any event, with the MySQL code already out in the world under the GPL, the very *worst* Oracle could do would be to stop paying developers to work on it and assert trademark rights to force the rest of the world to use a different name. Which isn't so bad, really. I have to disagree with sjansen on one point: right now, it's probably too early for even Larry Ellison to know exactly what Oracle will do :) Whatever they do, though, I much doubt that MySQL will be significanty hurt by it. -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
