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Nothing was stolen. The license allows commercial forks. Also, nothing of value was lost. The new forks have all the source code.
by skybrian 3y ago
Nothing was stolen. The license allows commercial forks.
Also, nothing of value was lost. The new forks have all the source code.
- KronisLV 3y ago> Also, nothing of value was lost. The new forks have all the source code. What about the community fragmentation and the eventual rise of incompatibilities as the development will take on slightly different directions? E.g. what happened with MySQL and MariaDB.
- skybrian 3y agoIt’s a risk. It’s not clear what will happen. Maybe one fork will win, or maybe the competing forks will come up with a common standard (like browsers). An issue with databases is that unlike browsers, there’s not that much incentive to standardize, since most apps pick one and stick with it, and their users don’t care.