On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Anupam Jain <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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? > MySql follows dual license model: http://www-jp.mysql.com/about/legal/licensing/oem/ -- Regards, Tirveni Yadav What is this Universe ? From what it arises ? Into what does it go? In freedom it arises, In freedom it rests and into freedom it melts away. Upanishads. _______________________________________________ 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]/
