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> "As part of European Agreement, Oracle will maintain MySQL dual licensing until 2015." > "Oracle also striped out some of the capabilities from the MySQL Ope
by emiliobumachar 14y ago
> "As part of European Agreement, Oracle will maintain MySQL dual licensing until 2015."
> "Oracle also striped out some of the capabilities from the MySQL Open Source version, like the NDB storage engine, for example, and now charges for this."
Can they do this? Dumb it down before 2015?
If they can, what would stop them from striping out more and bigger capabilities, effectively killing the Open Source version while maintaining dual licensing on paper?