sun^H^H^Horacle impact on open source products ?

[Evan Leibovitch]

Peter wrote:
> I wonder why no-one has reacted to the Sun->Oracle takeover, knowing that at
> least 3 open source products have thus passed into new hands. OpenOffice,
> VirtualBox and Java (and OpenSolaris) are now controlled by Oracle. Oracle
> bought sleepycat, makers of the dbm library used by mySQL, a competing product
> of Oracle's database products. So far, so good. What about tomorrow ? Is this
> the new patent clutching gorilla ?
>   

Um... you may have missed it, but Sun bought more than the MySQL dbm
library.
They bought MySQL.

http://www.sun.com/software/products/mysql/

So now Oracle owns mySQL.

This could indeed be interesting.

As for reaction... I'm sure there are scores of pundits who are blogging
and tweeting and churning out every possible scenario. I guess the folks
in TLUG will just sit back and watch. It's not as if we have much say in
the matter. :-)

The nice thing about open source is that they at least can't
retroactively destroy what already exists...

- Evan

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