____/ Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 28 February 2008 04:21 : \____
> ____/ Jerry McBride on Wednesday 27 February 2008 21:17 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> More Bad News at Tax Time?
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | The Internal Revenue Service has proposed new rules that would pull
>>> | within its orbit any software patent that affects taxes, likely choking
>>> | innovation.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23335842/
>>>
>>> Anti-patent page of MySQL, now part of Sun, goes dark
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Go to the MySQL Web site and try to click on the MySQL anti-software
>>> | patent page, and you won't find it. It's the other shoe dropping as
>>> | MySQL today became part of Sun Microsystems, which like the rest of the
>>> | commercial software and services industry, considers software patents a
>>> | necessary evil.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://scottmace.typepad.com/imanager/2008/02/anti-patent-pag.html
>>>
>>> MySQL is likely to go GPLv3 now, according to CNET.
>>>
>>
>> I wonder if we will see a mysql fork someday?
>
> Sun will probably try hard to avoid this (by ensuring they don't piss over
> the many users and clients).
Phipps has replies. Here is my last response to him:
"I thought it [Sun] was evolving to avoid death, but maybe I was wrong.
Hopefully Sun can correct this. I've spent hundreds of hours voluntarily
fighting software patents and here comes Sun abolishing an **existing**
campaign against them. Not nice...
And then comes MySQL making up excuses, blaming technical difficulties or some
error...
They should have learned from NetApp and become heroes, not 0s (and 1s)."
The key issue here is their stance on patents.
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