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Comment Re:Makes sense (Score 3, Interesting) 156

by rutledjw on Monday December 14, 2009 @04:27PM (#30435050) Attached to: Oracle Responds To MySQL Purchase Concerns

And as for the founder's (and the founder's buddy referenced in the article) concerns about the future of the product then he shouldn't have sold the damn thing. So sorry, you sold your rights to it. Fork it and start over if you really care that much.

This is an interesting point. It IS open source and can be forked. How much work in improving the DB occurs within Sun (and soon Oracle) presently? Aside from ignoring new features which are introduced to the open source version, how much damage will ignoring the code base really cause?

I would assume (possibly dangerous) that most MySQL users are savvy enough to use a different flavor of the MySQL code base if the one they're currently on gets stale. I don't see Oracle introducing iterative improvements for MySQL and certainly little or nothing which will be under an open license. I CAN see them layering other features on top which don't become a part of the code base. Not sure why they would pursue such a path unless they want to poke at SQL Server some...

Submission + - AT&T lowers the bar on customer service

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rutledjw

on Saturday November 14, 2009 @12:04PM

rutledjw writes: "AT&T has apparently started allowing customers to use transaction networks other than Visa, Mastercard, Discover, and AMEX, how nice! The issue, which they don't disclose, is this will charge the customer an ATM fee (and most likely save AT&T money as they won't pay a transaction fee). The box to use the alternate networks is checked by default and AT&T will only say: contact your bank for information on what this means to you. They MUST know they're passing these charges downstream. How do we raise awareness on this? Especially with the well published service issues they've been having?"

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