{"id":599,"date":"2008-04-28T12:10:59","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T11:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=599"},"modified":"2008-04-28T12:10:59","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T11:10:59","slug":"schwartz-vs-mickos-on-mysql-and-open-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/599-schwartz-vs-mickos-on-mysql-and-open-source.html","title":{"rendered":"Schwartz vs Mickos on MySQL and open source"},"content":{"rendered":"

At least, that’s how it looks. I was intrigued when I saw reports<\/a> raising the possibility of “high-end” features in MySQL being released under a closed-source license – confirmed (as a possibility) in a roundabout way here<\/a>. I found it odd because Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz had told me of Sun’s intention to open source everything.<\/p>\n

So what does Schwartz think of the MySQL idea? Not much, according to his statement in this email interview with Tim O’Reilly<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Marten Mickos (SVP, Database Group at Sun, former CEO, MySQL) made some comments saying he was considering making available certain MySQL add-ons to MySQL Enterprise subscribers only – and as I said on stage, leaders at Sun have the autonomy to do what they think is right to maximize their business value – so long as they remember their responsibility to the corporation and all of its communities (from shareholders to developers). Not just their silo. <\/p>\n

I think Marten got some fairly direct and immediate feedback saying the idea was a bad one – and we have no plans whatever of “hiding the ball,” of keeping any technology from the community. Everything Sun delivers will be freely available, via a free and open license (either GPL, LGPL or Mozilla\/CDDL), to the community. <\/p>\n

Everything. <\/p>\n

No exception.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Seems clear enough to me. <\/p>\n

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At least, that’s how it looks. I was intrigued when I saw reports raising the possibility of “high-end” features in MySQL being released under a closed-source license – confirmed (as a possibility) in a roundabout way here. I found it odd because Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz had told me of Sun’s intention to open source … Continue reading Schwartz vs Mickos on MySQL and open source<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,79,80,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source","category-software","category-software-development","category-sun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}