On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Jan Wieck wrote:
On 10/8/2005 12:13 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
Jan Wieck wrote:
To have a really good position when talking to Oracle, MySQL will need to
brush up on the BDB support, and that pretty quick.
What about the patents InnoDB might hold? It would be easier to enforce
a patent based on the fact that they are using code actually developed
by the patent holder.
That too.
What strikes me a little odd is how brief the responses from the MySQL side
are. Marten Mickos welcomes them, does some 2 sentence handwaving about
licensing and the glorious freedom of open source, and then the rest of the
statement is the usual blah blah about MySQL that you find in every other
press release.
It almost seems as if MySQL wasn't exactly prepared for this deal to come
through - or worse, that they are surprised about it. Although I can't
believe they wouldn't have known about it in advance.
Or, they knew about it and have some sort of contigency plan already in
place for when the license does expire ... ?
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