Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase
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Msg-id 25994.1129085956@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase  (Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>)
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Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com> writes:
> And look at it, all Oracle would have to do is to be so open source
> friendly that they make InnoDB GPL only. Can you imagine the confusion
> in the MySQL fan club if Oracle releases the next GPL version of InnoDB
> and MySQL AB announces that they ripped out InnoDB support and favor
> something with half the feature set instead?

ROTFL ... yes, you would have to give Oracle ten points out of ten for
style, if they did it that way.

            regards, tom lane

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