“Let it never be said that Monty Widenius gave up without a
fight. Widenius hasn’t given up hope of blocking Oracle taking
MySQL as part of its Sun acquisition. He started before the
holidays by calling for a letter writing campaign, and has stepped
it up with an Internet petition and a personal email campaign to
recruit signatures. Here’s hoping it will fail.“It probably wouldn’t be fair to call it spamming, but he’s
gotten pretty aggressive by emailing (in his own words) “every
person that I have ever communicated with regarding MySQL.” You
might not agree with Widenius, but at least you have to credit him
with tenacity.”
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