____/ Thufir on Wednesday 15 August 2007 09:39 : \____
> On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:59:38 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> | MySQL quietly let slip that it would no longer be distributing the
>> MySQL | Enterprise Server source as a tarball, not quite a year after
>> the company | announced a split between its paid and free versions.
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> "MySQL developer and community member Mike Kruckenberg blogged: "It
> doesn't seem to fit with the spirit of open source. When I think open
> source I think freely available source, not source I can get once I've
> paid for a license."
>
> <http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/08/14/mysql_tarball_community/>
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> It's pedantic to point out that the source is still available, it's the
> tarball which must be purchased. Isn't this the same business model used
> by redhat, or at least quite similar?
I believe it is. A /deja vu/, circa 2002. Then again, you have Startcom,
CentOS, and Oracle.
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