Office Software Politics

[Christopher Browne]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Andrew Cowie
<andrew-2KHxOkysSnqmy7d5DmSz6TlRY1/6cnIP at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 10:16 -0400, Mike Kallies wrote:
>
>> MySQL is great.  It's not going to disappear, it may fork though.
>
> In a sense it already has, with the bulk of the core developers now
> working on Drizzle (and in many cases, having left MySQL ^W Sun ^W
> Oracle).

If this survives, whether via Drizzle, MariaDB, or Percona's fork,
then it will put the lie to the belief that "dueling licenses" are a
necessary thing, in that, since none of the relevant organizations
hold title to the code, and thus cannot do business by selling
proprietary versions.
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