Comment Great to see someone who knows something about it (Score 1) 1

by PDnscp on Friday October 09, 2009 @05:05PM (#29698581) Attached to: Mickos urges EU to approve Oracle's MySQL takeover

This is so obvious, yet so encouraging since the comments are made by someone who actually understands open source and MySQL. The only consequence of the EU delay is to restrict competition, not enhance it.

Submission + - Mickos urges EU to approve Oracle's MySQL takeover (cnet.com) 1

Submitted by mjasay on Thursday October 08, 2009 @05:26PM

mjasay writes: Former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos has written to EU Commissioner of Competition Neelie Kroes to urge speedy approval of Oracle's proposed purchase of Sun, including the open-source MySQL database. The EU is has been worried that Oracle's acquisition of Sun could end up hurting competition by dampening or killing MySQL's momentum. But in his letter, Mickos separates MySQL, the community, from MySQL, the company, arguing that Oracle's takeover cannot hurt the MySQL community: "Those two meanings of the term 'MySQL' stand in a close mutually beneficial interaction with each other. But, most importantly, this interaction is voluntary and cannot be directly controlled by the vendor." In a follow-up interview with CNET, Mickos indicated that he has no financial interest in the matter, but instead argues he "couldn't live with the fact that [he's] not taking action," and is "motivated now by trying to help the employees still at MySQL and Sun, and by an urge to bring rational discussion to the matter."

Comment Great to see someone who knows something about it (Score 1) 1

Submission + - Mickos urges EU to approve Oracle's MySQL takeover (cnet.com) 1

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