Correct. I meant to suggest that by forking the project Sun would be doing a disservice to themselves and to the community, but the community would likely continue on their own version and Sun would have simply wasted their time and money.

I did not mean that the community deserves more than they're getting right now, merely that they are "owed" what they have and to try to deny that would be biting the hand that feeds.

I referred to MySQL as Sun/MySQL because the company by the same name as the project is now owned by Sun. As such, I'm really accusing Sun of failing the community.

It's näive to think that Sun would have purchased MySQL if it weren't for its community base of users and developers and indeed, MySQL would not have been much of anything without said same user and developer base. So to suggest that "the community" is owed nothing for their efforts (developing, testing, debugging, suggesting improvements, etc) is also näive.

MySQL is as popular as it is because of its environment as well as its code base. If you take away either component it will fail, and Sun doesn't seem to get that by taking away the community participation it's killing the project/product it just bought.

Sun/MySQL can and should be blamed if they are failing the community that made MySQL so popular and strong.

Sun has a bad reputation for having very closed open source projects such as OpenOffice. The project is managed much more like a proprietary venture than an open source project and community input is minimized or ignored altogether.

I can't feel sorry for Sun when they drop buku bucks on MySQL and then complain that others are taking their revenue away from them doing what the OSS community does best - improve the software on their own.

I've got about 500 DVDs that I'm ripping to HDD without compression (but only ripping the title track and main audio track at the highest quality - DD 5.1 or DTS) and I'm using OpenFiler as a centralized NAS. Presently I've got a RAID 5 array of 250GB drives (about 500GB usable space) and a RAID 1 array of 1TB drives backed up on a 500GB drive and a 1TB drive respectively (stored externally in a somewhat climate-controlled area).

I estimate that I will need another 3-4 TB of storage just for my movies, not to mention my music and photo collection.

I imagine in the next 10 years media centers (such as the PS 3, WMC, and MythTV) will become much more prominent and storage demands will increase dramatically. All this is without considering the impact of HD.

So I can easily see 1PB being necessary within 10 years if not more.