(Feeling prompted by some contemplation about this and a couple chats I've had with a other community members recently...)
Justin, Steve, Roy -- Please help slay a huge, and in my opinion, counter-productive ambiguity. In specific, the meaning behind your usage of term "MySQL model" (also expressed as "the governing style of MySQL"). What do you mean, specifically? I think (but I'm not sure) that you're generalizing the label "MySQL model" to mean one of the lowest of all company-sponsored opensource styles when it comes to community participation. Please correct me if I'm wrong. What I'm getting at is that I strongly believe we are still on a course to be something higher (much higher, in my opinion) than one of the lowest of community participation models. Eric