On Wed, April 29, 2009 4:17 pm, Ed Leafe wrote: > It's pretty cool, actually, to see the positive reaction resulting > from the Oracle purchase. There has been a renewed interest in a project > that was a fork of MySQL, Drizzle, ever since the news about Oracle > surfaced. In fact, Rackspace is hiring a couple of full-time developers to > contribute to Drizzle, since there are some internal uses for a fast, > lightweight database like that (we use PostgreSQL for most of our internal > stuff, though).
Cool! > > That's why open source is so important. Imagine if VFP were open > source: we could have someone like Christof head up a fork of the > Microsoft codebase to create a separate product that Microsoft > couldn't control. Development of new features and improvements would only > be limited by the enthusiasm of the user base. How's that different from the VFPX idea (other than folks not having the M$ code base)? > > What Oracle bought was the MySQL name and development team. They > didn't buy the code. And they can't affect existing products (by imposing restrictions, fees, etc.), right? Only with new stuff would things be affected. Correct me if you see that differently please! _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
