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Monty's 'Save MySQL' mudsling gets 15,000 backers
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| A petition to stop Oracle taking over MySQL
| has garnered support from more than 15,000
| people, after Michael âMontyâ Widenius
| launched his last gasp web campaign in
| December.
|
| The MySQL co-creator, who walked away from
| the database just seven months after Sun
| Microsystems bought it in September 2008
| for $1bn, cobbled together a âSave MySQLâ
| website just before Christmas.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/04/mysql_campaign_15000_signatures/
Thousands sign petition against Oracleâs ownership of MySQL
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| Appeal to European Commission to force
| software giant to divest itself of open
| source database as it acquires Sun
| Microsystems attracts 14,000 signatures
|
| A petition calling on the European
| Commission to block the software giantâs
| proposed acquisition of MySQL â as part of
| its bid to buy Sun Microsystems, which owns
| the company behind the open source database
| â has attracted 14,000 signatures.
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http://www.information-age.com/channels/information-management/news/1106511/thousands-sign-petition-protesting-oracles-ownership-of-mysql.thtml
Recent:
Our Favourite Database Management System, MySQL
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| This is quite odd. MySQL is FLOSS so it can
| be forked and MW has done that. What is his
| problem? Does he want to sell something and
| then kill its value? Is he trying to keep
| open a window of opportunity for his new fork
| to grow? Thatâs OK but why cause FUD in the
| huge universe of users of MySQL?
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http://pogson.6k.ca/2010/01/01/our-favourite-database-management-system-mysql/
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