[Malvern] Well, that's it for Sun Microsystems.

[Stuart "Sslaxx" Moore]

Paul Potter wrote:
> Interesting thinking.
> 
> 2009/4/21 Geoff Bagley <geoff.bagley at btinternet.com>:
>> There's always the hope that someone will write a FOSS equivalent ( e.g like
>> Open Office is to MS Office etc.)

MySQL is under the terms of the GPL. Even if Oracle did want to bury the 
commercial version of the software, someone could always fork it and 
carry on like nothing happened.

Similarly with OpenOffice.org and VirtualBox. Even if Oracle were to go 
"these are non-core products and are to be discontinued with immediate 
effect", someone else could just take over the code and carry on. With 
OpenOffice.org, Novell would be in a prime position to take over as 
primary maintainer (due to their own existing fork).

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Stuart "Sslaxx" Moore
http://sslaxx.livejournal.com/