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So Monty is complaining that Oracle may end up owning MySQL. Here’s a reality check: If you sell something for ONE BILLION DOLLARS you have no right to dictate the terms of that product anymore. You sold it, game over.
Sun’s aquisition of MySQL probably helped sink that ship, unlike the flotilla of private yachts that Monty now owns thanks to Sun’s money. That ONE BILLION DOLLARS he took in exchange for MySQL must be converted into business value somehow to justify it’s price and Oracle are probably going to do just that.
If he really cared about ‘freedom’ he wouldn’t have taken the big businesses money and sold out. If he really, really cared he’d take that ONE BILLION DOLLARS and simply buy MySQL back as I am pretty sure it’s not worth now what he got for it.
But no, he sets up a site to try to strongarm Oracle into essentially losing all benifits to an investment valued at ONE BILLION DOLLARS because he doesn’t think they can be trusted to keep it ‘free’.
What an idiot.
The guy must be some kind of serious retard to complain. Give me a billion dollars and I’ll almost definitely keep my mouth shut about whatever you bought from me, genicides and the like excluded.
P.S. First.
Monty’s such a douche…
Idiot. It’s not your product. I’d close MySQL just to spite him and every freetard on the planet.
God that title cracks me up:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/16/sun-picks-up-mysql-for-1-billion-open-source-is-a-legitimate-business-model/
Yea there is a business in selling open source to suckers.