On Wednesday 10 February 2010 23:11:11 Roopakshi Pathania wrote: > Hi, > > > From: Krishnakant Mane <[email protected]> > > This is a serious concern, particularly to India because we > > have 10 > > million blind people in this country. > > Indeed, retaining the developers working on accessibility wouldn’t > have been a huge drain on their resources, especially since Oracle > has made Open Office and MySQL a part of their open source global > business unit. > http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/analysis/2257148/oracle-sheds- >light-sun-plans > > A petition like the one Monty Widinius came up with is in order to > stir up not only Oracle, but also other companies working in the > open source arena. Also, this should be brought into notice by the > major players who were opposing Oracle’s acquisition of Sun in > general, and MySQL in particular as the media would still be > watching their blogs and twitter accounts. The news has already > been picked up by Slashdot and OStatic. > http://ostatic.com/blog/oracle-cuts-affect-gnome-accessibility-work
Monty Widinius had his own axe to grind, which was primarily him wanting to keep the MySQL copyright so that he could continue to dual licence. He completely forgot that there was a gpld version, which he could work with (minus the dual licence option). So dont quote Monty as an example. This cause can stand completely on it's own merit. -- Rgds JTD _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
