I don't like Oracle either, but you're coming dangerously close to sounding like a conspiracy theorist. The GPL-not-LGPL issue with the client library hasn't b

I don't like Oracle either, but you're coming dangerously close to sounding like a conspiracy theorist. The GPL-not-LGPL issue with the client library hasn't been a problem for years now. The attentive have been linking their non-free mysql-be-using software with libdrizzle, which is a complete, clean-room implemented, Berkeley licensed MySQL client library. Before that they were using the public domain version that MySQL-AB released before Monty decided to get sneaky with the GPL. I believe that MySQL has become better since Oracle got a hold of it, their stewardship I consider to be much better than Sun's. Since acquiring MySQL, Oracle has put out an extremely solid release, MySQL 5.5, and are making steady progress on 5.6. If you lived through the early releases of MySQL 5.1 you have an idea of what a botched MySQL release is like. I don't believe you do anyone on HN a service by spreading your gut feeling FUD about Oracle and MySQL.