sun acquires MySQL

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:56:10 -0500 (EST)
> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
> >
> >   just wondering how this will affect MySQL's availability WRT fedora.
> >
> > http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/sun-acquires-mysql.html/
>
> Unless Sun can the GPL version which seems unlikely I can't see it
                ^?
> making much difference. Sun already own OpenOffice.org for example
> and they contributed a *lot* to the desktop including some really
> hard and specialist work on accessibility.

i suspected it wasn't going to have much of an effect, but there might
have been things happening behind the scenes that weren't so obvious.
just thought i'd ask.

rday
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