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

[Paul Potter]

Be very nice if it's more stable under Linux when putting photos on Facebook.

2009/4/21 Guy Inchbald <guy at steelpillow.com>:
> MySQL has already forked. Sun started making their advanced new features
> proprietary, so the originator Monty Widenius left Sun a little while
> ago and created a fork called MariaDB. There is also a fork called
> Drizzle, and possibly others. Sorry I have lost the links to follow up,
> but Google is your friend.
>
> OOo (OpenOffice.Org) has also sort of forked. Go-OOo is an unofficial
> (i.e. not sanctioned by Sun) enhancement which the maintainers had hoped
> to feed back into the OOo source, and which is apparently the version
> you get with debian lenny - even though my debian version info doesn't
> say so.
>
> IMHO the big question is the one hanging over java - will Oracle make
> the same kind of mess that Sun did, or even worse, or (one can always
> dream) actually fix it?
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Guy Inchbald
>
>
> On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 16:51 +0100, Stuart "Sslaxx" Moore wrote:
>> 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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