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Forbes: Open Source Crowd Turns On One Of Its Own

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 15, 2005

“First his most dreaded rival, Oracle, acquired a company that
supplies a key piece of MySQL’s software, a
move that could make life difficult for Uppsala, Sweden-based
MySQL, which has the most popular open source database.

“If that wasn’t bad enough, Mickos is being
denounced as a traitor by noisy fanatics in the open source
software community because last month he dared to make a deal with
SCO Group, a company reviled by fans of Linux and other open source
software…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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