[Bulk]From another group: Help save MySQL

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 11:52:13AM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:
> It's fairly surprising how quickly XFree86 disappeared from relevance
> when a considerable portion of the developers switched over to work on
> X.org.  There's definitely something cautionary there.

Well given the xfree86 maintainers had become totally impossible to work
with, I think all the distributions were just waiting for a way to stop
dealing with it.

> The cases of OpenBSD versus NetBSD and SQL-Leger versus LedgerSMB are
> cautionary in "character" terms; both have associated participants
> that said more-or-less unforgivably insulting things that helped
> expose the gap between the respective communities.

Sounds about right to me.

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