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Maybe it's legal talk that I don't understand, but the fact that Oracle owns the majority of the dev team today, doesn't mean Oracle developed MySQL. Because at

Maybe it's legal talk that I don't understand, but the fact that Oracle owns the majority of the dev team today, doesn't mean Oracle developed MySQL. Because at the time MySQL was "developed", Oracle didn't own MySQL, nor did Oracle "own" the developers.

johannes1234321 5y ago
Oracle still develops and to a notable number the same people. Also Oracle steered 8.0 which was a big change to internals. Anyways won't argue about single words.
quesera 5y ago
"Developed" is not used in the past tense here. Think "Currently developed by Oracle".