Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 82.192.250.149]
on January 16, 2008 02:49 PM
'Wonder what they are going to close up in MySql to get back all that cash.' It sounds like you do not understand the GPL license under which MySQL is distributed. Current versions which have been released under the GPL CANNOT be closed up. Anybody - you, for example - can legally grab the source and make it available for download from your server by anyone. Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, etc etc are already doing this and will doubtless continue to do so.
Sun might add new features/better performance and make the improved version proprietary. But if they did this, probably somebody would fork the current MySQL, building the new features into the free version.
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Re: Sun buys MySQL for one billion dollars
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 82.192.250.149] on January 16, 2008 02:49 PMSun might add new features/better performance and make the improved version proprietary. But if they did this, probably somebody would fork the current MySQL, building the new features into the free version.
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