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On Thursday 17 January 2008, James wrote: |
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> I only ask because Sun just paid |
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> a billion dollars for MySQL.... |
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> http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/16/sun-mysql_1.html |
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> How is it that Open Source is for sale? |
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It's not. MySQL (the company) is for sale and Sun buys the customer |
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base. |
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> GPL? |
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Yeah, what does this mean? MySQL's software is distributed under the |
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terms of the GPL as an open source product. They have a more |
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restrictive license for their super-duper products that isn't GPL. |
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Doesn't affect ownership of the business in any way. |
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> Is gentoo next? |
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> James |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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