On 10/25/23 23:30, JBC offsite wrote: > I think Roland Turner may be suggesting that MariaDB falls into that class?
MariaDB was a trauma response to Oratroll's acquisition of MySQL the same way Libre Office was a trauma reaction to Oratroll's acquisition of OpenOffice. (According to the creator of Java, they acquired the corpse of Sun to do things like sue Google over dalvik, and any actual technology was secondary to the patent portfolio.) While you can learn a lot by studying xfree86->x.org or etherial->wireshark it's more "what kind of damage can a project survive" rather than "what is a good idea for a healthy project to do". Rob _______________________________________________ The opinions expressed in this email are those of the sender and not necessarily those of the Open Source Initiative. Official statements by the Open Source Initiative will be sent from an opensource.org email address. License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@lists.opensource.org http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org
