____/ 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.
>> `----
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>> 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).
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