On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 19:27:42 -0500, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Monty thinks it's impossible to make money off open source unless he > can dual-license it. Setting aside various existence proofs to the > contrary, the fact remains that he already SOLD the rights to > dual-license MySQL, when he sold MySQL AB to Sun; and he made a pretty > hefty amount of money doing so. Now he'd like the EU to force Oracle to > give him back that right for free. This isn't so much about "let's help > save MySQL" as it is about "let's help Monty get a second bite of the > apple". > > (FWIW, I completely agree with Monty that Oracle is likely to do their > best to kill MySQL once they have it. But they can't kill the GPL'd > version as long as people are willing to work on that. Evidently > Monty isn't.) I pretty much agree with all of the above. I don't feel sorry for Monty. With all of the money he got I wouldn't have expected money to be an issue. If he wants to work on a fork he can afford to, and if he doesn't want to work on one, money is unlikely to provide enough incentive to make him want to either. I don't really see a downside if Oracle does kill off new MySQL development, as Postgres has been better for a very long while and Postgres might get more / better out of the box support (and proper use) from open source applications. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
