I feel positive. Oracle's behavior reminds me of the Caldera/SCO affair some years ago. Please look where SCO is today. Also remember how good it was when Mozilla foundation took over after netscape for our browsing experience? Oracle's business has been "sailing" to a dead end? I bet so, but that is something we should not care much about. MySQL will be able to improve a lot when driven by the needs of developers and not by a single company, so making a open MySQL fork is the thing to work for. I expect great things for the future of the office suite, which will be finally more component oriented and easier to integrate as a library.
mic 2010/10/11 cjrh <[email protected]>: > On Oct 11, 4:38 am, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: >> This all happened in less than 2 months: > > Yes, ofc. > > OpenSolaris was the first to go. The future of MySQL is looking > suspicious. OpenOffice has already become "Libre Office" as published > by the "Document Foundation": > > http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/ > > The lawsuit of Oracle against Google is for their (Google's) > implementation of the Dalvik lookalike Java runtime, which apparently > breaks the conditions of the Java open-source licence. It turns out > that in order to use the Java open-source licence, one has to > completely implement the entire Java specification. If only a subset > is implemented, the open-source licence no longer applies. It is > insane. It seems Java was never really true open-source to begin > with, and it sounds like the opportunity to go after Google was one of > the carrots in the Oracle-Sun takeover to begin with. > > Hence the appeal of more straightforward, easy-to-understand licences > such as the WTF licence: > > http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/ > > :)
