Genuinely curious how much you've donated towards MySQL and MariaDB if you feel so strongly about him not "selling out"..

My gut is telling me, much like everyone else who has similar distaste towards people being paid for their work, absolutely nothing.

He sold to Sun Microsystems, not to Oracle.

Oracle then bought Sun.

Why should he have not sold it?

Why does it make him an asshole?

He's written two incredible open source tools, that are still open source.

If someone then offers him some money to secure himself & family, why should he ignore them?

Amazed how, when it at the time had by far the largest share of global DB installations?