[ Thanks to Amy
Bennett for this link. ]
“So, what’s the problem?
“It seems that quite a few people are upset about the whole
notion of adding commercial-only features to MySQL, seeing it as
the end of all innovation in the GPLed flavor of the popular open
source database.“I don’t see these additions as being anything other than a
value add to MySQL customers who are willing to pay for them, and
this is no more a threat to the open MySQL development than the
hinkiness a dual-license set up has in the first place.“In other words (long time readers, here’s where I blow your
minds), this is a good move by Oracle.”