EU’s MySQL inquiry may backfire for open source
Posted: October 20, 2009
By: cnet.com
It takes time, leadership, and a fair amount of luck to successfully build an open-source community. It also takes money. Lots of it, if IBM’s $1 billion commitment to Linux is any indication.
Unfortunately, the return on such open-source community investments may be permanently scuppered by the European Commission’s misguided defense of MySQL from Oracle’s intended acquisition. If the EC is going to punish successful open-source endeavors like MySQL, will investors still clamor to finance the rise of open source?………..[read entire story]
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