<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Bruno Wolff III <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bruno@wolff.to">bruno@wolff.to</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 19:27:42 -0500,<br>
Tom Lane <<a href="mailto:tgl@redhat.com">tgl@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Monty thinks it's impossible to make money off open source unless he<br>
> can dual-license it. Setting aside various existence proofs to the<br>
> contrary, the fact remains that he already SOLD the rights to<br>
> dual-license MySQL, when he sold MySQL AB to Sun; and he made a pretty<br>
> hefty amount of money doing so. Now he'd like the EU to force Oracle to<br>
> give him back that right for free. This isn't so much about "let's help<br>
> save MySQL" as it is about "let's help Monty get a second bite of the<br>
> apple".<br>
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> (FWIW, I completely agree with Monty that Oracle is likely to do their<br>
> best to kill MySQL once they have it. But they can't kill the GPL'd<br>
> version as long as people are willing to work on that. Evidently<br>
> Monty isn't.)<br>
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</div>I pretty much agree with all of the above. I don't feel sorry for Monty.<br>
With all of the money he got I wouldn't have expected money to be an issue.<br>
If he wants to work on a fork he can afford to, and if he doesn't want to<br>
work on one, money is unlikely to provide enough incentive to make him<br>
want to either.<br>
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I don't really see a downside if Oracle does kill off new MySQL development,<br>
as Postgres has been better for a very long while and Postgres might get<br>
more / better out of the box support (and proper use) from open source<br>
applications.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I dunno. While I did push for the CMS project I work on to support PostgreSQL, I personally think that Postgres is huge overkill for most things. It can also be a huge PITA to set up. Whenever I have to test Postgres stuff, I usually grab EnterpriseDB's distribution because I don't want to suffer hell setting it up on the various platforms I have to test on. </div>
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