The MySQL petition

Jeffry Smith jsmith at alum.mit.edu
Tue Jan 5 23:40:25 EST 2010


What strikes me is his apparent non-belief in Open Source.  Basically,
he's arguing that you need to force the disgorgement to protect the
current proprietary MySQL clients, and they're needed for continuing
development, because the Open Source community hasn't/won't stood up
to support MySQL.  IAW, without proprietary development, the GPL
version would die.

Could it be the community hasn't stood up because you have to assign
copyright to MySQL/Sun/Oracle, and people don't like giving their work
to a company to run their business without compensation.

Maybe if the dropped the proprietary version, and dropped the
copyright assignment, they'd find a lot of people willing to help.

jeff


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