There are some precedents - the acquisition of SleepyCat (berkeley db,
et al) - still readily available under GPL compatible licenses.

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:47 AM, AlamedaMike <limejui...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>> I can see a lot of technologies that drive the open source world, and this 
>>> group, being compromised
>
> Nothing's going to happen, for the simple reason that the cost to
> Oracle's reputation would far outweigh anything they might gain from
> charging for open-source products. The ultimate effect would be to
> simply route around any attempt to close the sources or to restrict
> changes.
>
> Oracle didn't become the world's third largest software company by
> being stupid.
> >
>

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