On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Anne Wilson <annew@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thursday 23 April 2009 22:33:20 Matthew Flaschen wrote: >> Max Pyziur wrote: >> > "This is a monster step backward for those of us who are committed to >> > sustaining open source," said Lev Gonick, chief information officer at >> > Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, who uses database software >> > from Oracle as well as MySQL. "I have no doubt that this is an attempt to >> > kill the competition." >> >> If Oracle thinks that their $7 billion is going to killing MySQL, they >> are sorely mistaken. Companies come and go. FOSS endures, and so will >> MySQL. >> > So if I were in their shoes I'd want to make some money out of it. Oops - > isn't that what they are planning? > > Anne > -- > New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org > Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > I thought since it is open source ... other peoples codes are in there and should remain free... since they (oracle) have support the community in the past I am sure they would not want to go against the open source community. So my thoughts is it would remain free... Oluwagbenga -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
