paulhoffman - Slashdot User

Comment Ah, so that's why he spammed me this weekend (Score 2, Informative) 371

by paulhoffman on Monday January 04, 2010 @12:21PM (#30641964) Attached to: Monty Wants To Save MySQL

He apparently went through the database of everyone who had ever submitted a bug report and vacuumed up email addresses, because that's the only way he would have known me to send me his appeal. That's not stooping low: that's slithering.

Monty Wants To Save MySQL 371

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday January 04, 2010 @11:56AM from the take-backsies-are-hard dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It seems as if the MySQL author is trying hard to win back control over MySQL. In his blog he calls upon the MySQL users to 'Help keep the Internet free' by signing his petition. He fears that if Oracle buys Sun they automatically get MySQL which would spell doom for the project. But I have have mixed feelings with this call for help, because after all — who sold MySQL in the first place?"

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