Whose MySQL?

Charles comments on charity actions and a petition for the MySQL database.

Sometimes inbetween Christmas and New Year’s Eve, the “Help MySQL” initiative was founded. This initiative, publicly supported by Monty Widenius, the co-founder of MySQL would be interesting if it wasn’t somehow indecent.

The petition Helpmysql seems to be quite successful: 22 945 confirmed signups

Jan Wildeboer adds common sense:

If you sell something, you don’t own it any longer. MySQL is now SUNs business. And if SUN decides to sell themselves to Oracle – it is their business. If the MySQL founders and fanboys don’t like this, they simply shouldn’t have sold MySQL to SUN in the first instance.

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