eWeek: MySQL Founders: Kill All the Patents

[ Thanks to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]

"The patent wars are red-hot.

"The OSI (Open Source Initiative) board earlier this month issued a statement condemning open-source license proliferation as 'a significant barrier to open-source deployment.' For its part, Intel requested in late March that OSI withdraw one of Intel's patents [sic] from future use. Meta Group analyst Charlie Garry is predicting that through 2010, enterprises will flee from the steep fees of database software licensing and into the embrace of open source..."

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