[FC-discuss] RMS on Mysql

Tue Jul 7 12:07:45 EDT 2009

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From: Richard Stallman <rms at gnu.org>
Reply-to: rms at gnu.org
To: James Love <james.love at keionline.org>
Cc: malini.aisola at keionline.org
Subject: Re: Mysql
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:00:56 -0400

Does FSF have an opinion in the Oracle acquisition of MySQL?

The danger is clear: it puts MySQL under the control of a company that
distributes a proprietary database.  The company might decide to block
certain improvements in MySQL if they might enable some users to migrate
to it from Oracle.

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