“Michael Widenius continues his campaign to keep Oracle from
acquiring MySQL with a petition and a lengthy FAQ on what he sees
the problems being. “If the deal is approved based on the fact that
‘MySQL can be forked’, that will be a big blow to open source
Software. It means that open source software is not protected for
anti-competitive measures and it will be ok for big companies to
freely buy up their open source competitors and kill them. Note
that not even PostgreSQL is safe from this threat! For example,
Oracle could buy some companies developing PostgreSQL and target
the core developers. Without the core developers working actively
on PostgreSQL, the PostgreSQL project will be weakened tremendously
and it could even die as a result.”
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