Re: Ammunition

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Christopher Browne wrote:
> > pgman@candle.pha.pa.us (Bruce Momjian) writes:
> > > To me, the big MySQL issue is that it isn't an open source
> > > development project, just a company that distributes code via open
> > > source.  They will never be able to keep up with us.
> >
> > I found the quote from Scott McNealy most ironic:
> >
> > http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/story/0,10801,78443,00.html
> >
> > "If you want to save...money, make the default database MySQL. It's
> > free, it's bundled [with Sun's Solaris software], you've got the whole
> > open-source community working on making it better. If Yahoo and Google
> > can run their entire operations on MySQL, then certainly there's a
> > huge chunk of your operations that could run on it as well."
> >
> > There lies a good question...
> >
> > How many "open source" developers are _actually_ working on MySQL?
> >
> > If Scott McNealy is right, then who are those scads of people
> > committing code to the tree?   :-)
>
> Zero.  MySQL has full license to the source code, so they can't have
> others contributing from outside.
>

I spoke to Zak and Georg Richter about this at a conference. They said
they receive some contributions, but that MySQL AB requires the
contributor to sign over copyright to MySQL AB.

Gavin