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On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:40:23 -0500,
Antonio Murphie <murphier@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:6579396.q9Y6gsUYTR@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Sun Microsystems Announces Agreement to Acquire MySQL
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>> | Sun Microsystems, Inc. has said that it has entered into a definitive
>> | agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one
>> of
>> | the world's fastest growing open source databases for approximately $1
>> | billion in total consideration. The acquisition accelerates Sun's
>> position in
>> | enterprise IT to now include the $15 billion database market. Today's
>> | announcement reaffirms Sun's position as the leading provider of
>> platforms
>> | for the Web economy and its role as the largest commercial open source
>> | contributor says Sun.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/general/15752/sun-microsystems-announces-agreement-acquire-mysql
>
> As usual.. the OSS zealots sell out whenever someone waves a few dollars in
> front of them. They's gots to eat ya know?
>
> It's just a matter of time before all of the significant OSS projects sell
> out to a commercial interest. Because at the end of the day, it really is
> all about the Benjamins.
>
hey look! another clueless wintroll who doesn't know (or pretends to not
know) that MySQL has been a for profit company for years, releasing GPL
code, and making money off that code.
Poor wintrol, his paradigm shifted without a clutch and burned out his
brain.
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