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Despite the attempt of some to move goal posts, you're still guaranteed that you won't be locked in by Oracle even tomorrow. You still have the source code for
by mikerichards 12y ago
Despite the attempt of some to move goal posts, you're still guaranteed that you won't be locked in by Oracle even tomorrow. You still have the source code for the version you're running right?
- frostmatthew 12y agoSure...as long as I don't care about security patches, bug fixes, performance improvements, or new features.
- hobofan 12y agoIf people think the software moves in the wrong direction it will be forked (see MariaDB). Nothing world changing will happen. Docker Inc. seems to make a lot of effort to ensure Docker is a truely open project. I get the feeling that people think that handing your project to Apache is the only way to prevent vendor lock in these days.
- jmnicolas 12y ago" You still have the source code for the version you're running right?" Yes but I don't have the skill, time, resources and will to maintain MySQL if and when Oracle goes evil (I mean more evil than now ;-) This is why I choose carefully what companies / groups I depend on for my future computing needs.