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Protocols, The GPL, Influences from MySQL
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| I spent my Saturday at the SCALE conference
| down in LA. Most conferences I find have a
| meme and for this conference that was "MySQL's
| longterm influence on the GPL".
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| MySQL was the company that had the most
| influence on how companies and investors
| viewed the GPL.
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| When MySQL said "we will only take
| contributions via a contributor agreement",
| this translated into investors expecting
| everyone to do this (though requiring
| contributor agreements destroyed outside MySQL
| development to the kernel, and left MySQL in a
| position where no substantial, or many,
| contributions ever occurred).
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http://krow.livejournal.com/684068.html
Recent:
Why MySQL's creator thinks IBM could acquire the database
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| A quick review of Save MySQL online petition
| stats shows that the results are still in
| line with the results I reported previously.
| Over 90 percent of petition signees would
| require Oracle to divest MySQL to a "suitable
| third party."
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http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source/why-mysqls-creator-thinks-ibm-could-acquire-database-185
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