> I, Michael "Monty" Widenius, the creator of MySQL, am asking you urgently to help save MySQL from Oracle's clutches.
UL, So I'll guess you'll be crying into your €16.6m
UL, So I'll guess you'll be crying into your €16.6m
I don't get where people get this strange attitude from. Like you're more of a "sellout" when you build a company over time, with an open source product and don't want to be controlled by your competitor. Than if you, like most startups today, build a proprietary product with the intention of selling to you biggest competitor as soon as possible.
And see, I don't expect Montey to like this, but I do wish he'd shut up about it. He's not the right person to be leading this call. My take on this doesn't have anything to do with it being OSS or not; it'd seem like sour grapes if any founder who sold his company and left was trying to incite governments towards legal action against his acquiring company at a time when they're otherwise pretty much hosed.
sold to, for a hefty sum and then quit as caretaker
> being bought by the ones who owns the rest of the city.
because the city went bust and needed the money