On Sat, 11 Feb 2006, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> This highlights one of our vulnerabilities. Oracle bought InnoDB to
> attack MySQL, and we don't think we have a similar vulnerability.
>
> But there is so little money made in open source that small amounts of
> money (by Oracle standards) can easily gain control over companies that
> have embedded themselves in open source projects. Basically, to the
> extent these purchases can be used to harm MySQL, they can be used to
> harm us too.
How? What external projects (or companies) do we rely on for our code
base? As far as I know, we've been very careful about this, with the
biggest one that ever gets mentioned time and again being the whole
readline stuff ...
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