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I'll never understand why big companies buy out an open source project when the chances are it'll just stall and loose all credibility. Who gained from that tra

by jpcx01 17y ago

I'll never understand why big companies buy out an open source project when the chances are it'll just stall and loose all credibility. Who gained from that transaction, aside from the team who got their cash windfall and ran.

kevinherron 17y ago
s/loose/lose Why do so many people make this mistake? It drives me crazy!
- m0nty 17y ago
  The word "choose" probably doesn't help much.
- hernan43 17y ago
  Drives me nuts too.
jbyers 17y ago
MySQL's release troubles started well before their acquisition. I think the jury's still out on how Sun does with them.
- elblanco 17y ago
  Due to the inherent unreliability of the Sun/Oracle acquisition of the software, my company quickly tossed MySQL for an embedded desktop dB and moved to use SQLite, haven't even bothered to look back. That was the far better choice for our application by far (and much much cheaper).