Tom Lane wrote:

The other point I'd make against John's argument is that there are a
whole lot of Fortune 500 companies buying Red Hat support, and RH is
effectively a third party for large chunks of Linux.  (Of course,
there are also large chunks for which Red Hat employees write as much
code as anyone

Yeah, I've heard that. :)

I think the real criterion for big companies is not so much whether
you're supporting your "own" product as whether you're big enough to
be worth suing if things go wrong.

I think you're right, and MySQL is unlikely to allow anybody else to get that big.

- John Burger
  MITRE

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