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My prediction is that in the next few years Oracle will give up on MySQL by either abandoning it or give it to the foss community. Because once the enthusiasts
by arkitaip 14y ago
My prediction is that in the next few years Oracle will give up on MySQL by either abandoning it or give it to the foss community. Because once the enthusiasts, devs and hackers lose faith in your foss project - it's done for. Just look at what happened to Open Office.
- cincinnatus 14y agoBut first they'll try to sue a bunch of people.
- kryptiskt 14y agoI don't see them giving up the copyrights. As it is GPL, nobody else is going to go opencore with it or having a separate commercial license. Which puts a spanner in the works for MariaDB and other MySQL-based competitors (Monty did in fact complain about it a while back).