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I think you overestimate how much Sun controls MySQL. They have not made anything closed-source, and the stories that they were considering it a couple months ago were quite misleading. I think you're overestimating this in general actually. PHP is certainly not controlled by a company, and Fedora is a very open project.

Would it be any better if the top contributors to Postgres left the project than if the MySQL ones did? Unless you have some data showing that one project has a much more centralized group of contributors, I don't think you can draw any conclusions based on who makes money from it.

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Re^5: [OT] Why I don't use Mysql for new projects
by Mutant (Priest) on Jul 10, 2008 at 19:45 UTC
    Unless you have some data showing that one project has a much more centralized group of contributors, I don't think you can draw any conclusions based on who makes money from it.

    I'm not talking about empirical evidence that conclusively proves something. I'm just talking about a personal preference. I prefer to use OSS projects that are set up in that way, and it's worked for me so far. If something else works for you, then great.

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Re^5: [OT] Why I don't use Mysql for new projects
by doom (Deacon) on Jul 10, 2008 at 23:14 UTC

    I think you overestimate how much Sun controls MySQL.

    Doesn't Oracle own the innodb code? That strikes me as far more worrying than the Sun aquisition.

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      It's open source, just like the rest of MySQL, and Oracle has done nothing to threaten that. Notice how Oracle bought BerkeleyDB and has done nothing to harm it either.
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