Since the overall reaction to this seems pretty negative, a moment of "devil's advocate": Yes, he sold MySQL--to Sun, not Oracle. I imagine he expected that Su

Since the overall reaction to this seems pretty negative, a moment of "devil's advocate": Yes, he sold MySQL--to Sun, not Oracle. I imagine he expected that Sun would continue MySQL's business model. He got lots of money, Sun got a new revenue stream, the customers kept doing what they had been doing, everyone was happy. Call him naive for assuming things wouldn't change, but it's not like he knowingly sold MySQL to a company that wouldn't necessarily be interested in preserving the existing MySQL user community. Bashing him for only raising the issue now may be a bit unfair. That said, I'm not particularly sympathetic either.