Grigore Dolghin wrote:
Right, Dave.
That's why I prefer SQL Server Express, Firebird or PostgreSQL (in
this order). They are free under any circumstances. So... if the guys
at Firebird can do it, I wonder why the guys at MySQL can't.
This comes back to the "free as in choice, not as in beer" and "how does
open source make money?" discussions. Perhaps MySQL saw how widely used
it was and thought "if we just charge $595 USD per year per server, we
can make a lot of money." To quote http://www.fsf.org/ : [Free
software is a matter of liberty not price. You should think of "free" as
in "free speech".]
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