… the whole idea of not providing free binaries for the community edition is seriously stupid whose long-term repercussions have not been… use MySQL will decrease, which means that the opportunity for commercial licenses for MySQL will decrease. This is a bad move by MySQL, and the loss of goodwill in the open source community will…
Comment: Should we proclaim MySQL Community Edition Dead ?
July 2, 2008 By 34 Comments
…MySQL 5.0.51a and MySQL 5.0.51b security fixes … do!), but those issues generally revolve around the community editions getting *more stable* releases, at the cost of… than more resources directed towards community patch reviews, mentoring, and streamlining the contributor licensing). Also, perhaps I’…
Comment: Where to get recent MySQL version ?
December 31, 2006 By 86 Comments
… worst move, MySQL could do at this moment! There are some really excellent alternative RDBMS out there, including community (free) editions of really excellent databases from the “big players”. So, MySQL will not only lose users (aka “potential customers for commercial licenses…
