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On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Don wrote:
No, but they could really water it down and use it as a intro level hobbiest
dbms and if you want to get serious then you'll have to buy some version of
oracle... HYPOTHETICALLY, tales with more than 40 rows or 3000 columns,
then Oracle...etc...
They could also choke it performance wise...etc... Basically, neuter it...
No, they can't. That is the power of open source. Certainly they could
write some hobbled code and release it, but who would use it? The full
version are already out there and can be legally modified and distributed
by anyone. If Oracle were to cripple MySQL someone else would simply
uncripple it and distribute it - the GPL gaurantees this right.
Open source software is powerful not because it is good (though that is
also often the case) but because of the rights it gives users to modify
and distribute.
James Rich
if you want to understand why that is, there are many good books on
the design of operating systems. please pass them along to redmond
when you're done reading them :)
- Paul Davis on ardour-dev
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