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Monty Responds

December 21, 2009 John MarkLeave a comment

Michael "Monty" Widenius wrote a nicely-worded response to my previous post "Oracle, Mysql and the GPL: don't take Monty's word for it", and I thought it deserves more visibility, so I'm quoting it below. For the record, I'm not an Oracle "fan" and am ...

Posted in SyndicatedTagged ec, monty, mysql, oracle, ostatic, sun

Oracle, MySQL and the GPL: don’t take Monty’s word for it

December 17, 2009 John MarkLeave a comment

In the continuing soap opera of Oracle's battle against the European Commission for the right to acquire Sun, and with it, MySQL, we have had to rely on the bloggers and analysts to get it right, because the media surely has not. Before you read any fu...

Posted in SyndicatedTagged monty, mysql, oracle, ostatic, sun

OStatic: Open Source is More Than a License

November 5, 2009 John MarkLeave a comment

Has the terminology finally evolved in the debate over "who's open source?" It would seem so. After years of haggling over the essence of open source, free software or other monikers, Simon Phipps gets right to the point in "A Remarkable Reversal" - hi...

Posted in SyndicatedTagged mysql, oracle, ostatic
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