On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Raj Mathur <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday 22 Apr 2009, Nalin Savara wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Gora Mohanty <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:22:49 +0530 >> > Nalin Savara <[email protected]> wrote: >> > [...] >> > >> > > I think this is a good opportunity for Oracle to make strategic >> > > moves-- similar to Microsoft corp-- and to try to monetize many >> > > users who are now locked in onto LAMP. >> > >> > [...] >> > >> > Would you care to explain how exactly people are "locked into >> > LAMP", and why Oracle "monetizing" them is a good thing for >> > people at large? >> >> (1) How are people "locked into Lamp" ? >> --> because many people/sites use Drupal, Joomla, PHP etc-- and >> incase a particular platform vendor decides to fork the offering into >> a premium and non-premium offering; then it is easier for them to pay >> for premium service than to take the risk of re-engineering tens of >> thousands of code to use a different underlying platform component >> eg: database. > > Since as of today MySQL is GPL, you cannot force a single user of MySQL > in a FOSS application to pay you a single paisa. Sorry to bust your > dreams, but Oracle can only make people pay from the next release of > MySQL (if they switch it to a proprietary licence), and those people > can still continue to use the current release and forks thereof with no > problems and no payment. >
Does MySQL have *zero* community contributed code licensed under GPL? If not then doesn't that prevent Oracle from charging even for the next version? -- Anupam _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
