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eWeek: Open Source Ripe for the Taking

“There has been plenty of discussion about the effects of
Oracle’s Sleepycat acquisition on the database market and on MySQL
specifically. But I wonder about the impact these acquisitions will
have on open-source software and open-source licensing as a
whole.

“Oracle isn’t the first major commercial software company to buy
open-source products: IBM and Novell, just to name two, have been
doing it for years…”

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