[GTALUG] MySQL v. MariaDB

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Wed Oct 13 17:41:06 EDT 2021


On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 01:40:28PM -0400, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
> I wonder how long before Oracle starts suing people using MariaDB now that
> they own MySQL?
> Kind of like they did with Google over using the Java published interfaces.

Well mariadb exists because Oracle bought mysql.  It didn't need to
exist before they bought it.

It's been 12 years, I don't think they have any basis to sue anyone,
probably much to their annoyance.

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Len Sorensen


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