MySQL founder's latest MariaDB release takes "enterprise" features open-source
Found on ArsTechnica on Friday, 13 April 2012
MontyProgram AB, the company formed by MySQL creator Michael "Monty" Widenius in the wake of his break with Sun Microsystems, has released the latest version of MariaDB, a “drop-in replacement” for MySQL built on the MySQL 5.5 codebase.
Oracle has continued development of MySQL, but stirred discontent in the MySQL community when the company shifted the development model away from a fully open-source approach to an "open core," with new enterprise features offered under a commercial license only.
One would have thought that after it's failure to control OpenOffice, which let to the LibreOffice fork, Oracle would have learned that it cannot change the rules whatever way it wants and expect people to accept them like mindless sheep.