MySQL 4.0.x

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

At 12:31 5/16/2004, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:
>I have just recently posted a similar request and I guess the Fedora
>steering committee must finally take up it's resposibility for a
>community driven project and accept that they need to have a separate
>MySQL package for Fedora and RHEL. BTW, I very much doubt that people
>buying RHEL are happy with this archaic MySQL version either.

Bullshit.

I run Fedora and RHEL, and in both cases I make money from the use of those 
servers. I like the archaic MySQL just fine, thank you very much, since the 
new license *could* be interpreted to mean I owe MySQL AB a lot of money if 
I happen to run a 4.x version of the database I already ran. I thank God 
for a company like Red Hat, which protects my interests by having clear 
goals, guidelines, and policies, and by honoring those policies.

The new MySQL licensing is a classic bait-and-switch: it's free, you use 
it, you like it, and then you have to switch (and pay your programmers to 
make the change) or pay them a lot of money. MySQL AB is banking on making 
some sales because some people will find it cheaper to stay and pay than to 
walk. That bothers the hell out of me, and on principle I walk. I'm moving 
all our stuff to PostgreSQL now, which has always been a fine database 
anyway... I just started on MySQL and had no major reason to switch before 
(but boy, I do now).

What are *you* going to do? That is your decision and your responsibility. 
I don't care, and I'll hazard a guess that 99.9% of this list doesn't 
either. I speak for no one but myself, but as a member of the Fedora 
community I'm going to do everything I can to ensure that the objectives of 
the Fedora Project are upheld.

Cheers,


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
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